Supporting Open Source Software for Education
Last month, we announced our new partnership with SunGard Higher Education (SGHE), in which SGHE will offer subscriptions to the rSmart Sakai CLE. SGHE will help institutions migrate to and implement the CLE, as well as integrate external systems, while rSmart will provide hosting and support.
SGHE has a long-standing presence in higher education, and this partnership should open the path to Sakai for many institutions. But just as importantly, it promises to expand Sakai’s potential for existing users, by helping increase the growth and stability of the Sakai community and by contributing to the development of new solutions for the CLE.
September 28, 2010
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from external blog: http://xolotl.org/blog/xolotl/taking-high-value-road-innovation-open-practices
I've long believed the open practices we follow in the Sakai community result in more, better, faster functionality, code, security, accessibility, standards-compliance, and innovation generally. But lately, evidence has been mounting to demonstrate the high value and wide acceptance of the open path more clearly than ever.
Readers of our Smart Talk newsletter may recall the "2+3 Hybrid" project, which was the focus of an article earlier this year. With many community members contributing to Sakai 3 development, this project's goal is to help provide a smooth transition from Sakai 2, by creating a "hybrid" mode for Sakai 3. In this mode, users log into Sakai 3, but still have access to the Sakai 2 environment.
October 19, 2009
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from external blog: http://xolotl.org/blog/xolotl/sakai-3s-commonplace-destiny
I've recently been enjoying some (possibly) healthy, irreverent debate with colleagues at Blackboard and beyond about some of the differences between such proprietary regimes and the open-source community of Sakai. While the Twitter channel we've been using generates plenty of pithy ripostes, at times a tweet calls out for more sustained thought and response.
A recent tweet from @georgekroner—one of my favorite Blackboarders—set me thinking and led to some longer—if not deeper—reflections, likely to be far less entertaining than the short salvos in our ongoing snarkument on Twitter.
May 2, 2008
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from external blog: http://xolotl.org/blog/xolotl/where-sakai-headed-or-i-want-my-user-centered-mash-extra-gravy
Hearing Chuck Severance's presentation at JA-SIG St Paul 2008 about work on the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 2.0 (LTI) standard restarted some thinking I'd already been doing about where online learning technology is (should be?) headed.