As you may have heard, a number of contributors in the Sakai community have begun talking about, and even working on, something being called Sakai 3. Sakai 3 would be a new version of Sakai representing significant change to the end-user experience and, likely, the underlying technology. The beginnings of this conversation go back to [...]
Submitted by superuser on December 15, 2008 - 7:10am.
If you didn’t see the newsletter item about the use of Sakai at University of Delaware, you should check out the article it was based on from the UDaily, a website produced by the University’s communications and public relations department. I particularly liked this quote:
[Allen Prettyman, instructor in the University's School of Nursing,] said that [...]
Submitted by superuser on December 8, 2008 - 4:18am.
Earlier this year the JA-Sig conference in St. Paul Minnesota brought together members from a variety of different Higher Education Open Source communities, including Sakai, D Space, Fedora Commons and Kuali. The Executive Directors of these project have stayed in touch and have been talking about different ways to work together.
Well, I’m happy to say [...]
Submitted by superuser on October 21, 2008 - 12:32am.
The Chronicle of Higher Education just published an interesting article about Blackboard in which Sakai is mentioned several times (along with Moodle and D2L). Overall, the article is well written and balanced. It’s rare that I read news coverage about something I know well and end up feeling the reporter did a good job of [...]
Submitted by superuser on September 10, 2008 - 2:00am.
This isn’t really an update on the overall progress of the D2L/Bb lawsuit or an update on the USPTO reexamination of the patent, but I was interested, technically, in what D2L would do to its latest version to render it non-infringing.
Basically, they’ve eliminated all roles from their system at the time of installation. The customer [...]
Submitted by superuser on July 23, 2008 - 7:51am.
Well, I’m sure you’ve all seen the article about the Bb-Sakai connector in Inside Higher Education. Both Chuck and I were quoted and Chuck has since blogged about it. I have a bit of additional perspective of my own I thought was worth sharing.
One of the questions on the email lists was “Is this a [...]
Submitted by superuser on July 16, 2008 - 2:59pm.
