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The Right Data for ePortfolios - article published by Campus Technology

Campus Technology recently publised an article written by Trent Bason called, The Right Data for ePortfolios. This article focuses on a different way of inputing data into ePortfolios to answer the question:"What are we doing now in higher education to see changes in students over time and how do we represent those changes so that both the student and other interested parties understand those changes?"

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8th Sakai Conference

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Build a Sakai/OSP Implementation Plan that Fits your Campus

Speaker(s): Steve Lonn, University of Michigan; Nate Angell, rSmart; Mara Hancock, University of California - Berkeley; Stephanie Teasley, University of Michigan - Moderatorread more

5th Sakai Conference: Community Source Week

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8th Sakai Conference

The Sakai Foundation is pleased to announce that the December 2007 Sakai Community Conference will be held in Newport Beach, California, USA, Tuesday-Thursday, December 4-7, with pre- and post-conference sessions and activities on Monday the 3rd, and Friday, the 7th. The site will be the Newport Beach Marriott.
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Open Source Success

"Open Source Success," Campus Technology, 7/23/2006, http://www.campustechnology.com/article.aspx?aid=41086

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Open Source Success
7/23/2006
How to ensure a winning implementation on your campus.
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Open Source Mission: Moving Open Source from the Machine Room to the Mission Statement

Have you heard the news? Harvard is changing its mission statement to read: "Harvard strives to create knowledge, to open the minds of students to that knowledge, and to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities, supported by a pervasive open source technology environment." Just kidding. But why wait for Harvard? It's time to move open source beyond the machine room at universities and put it into the top-level institutional strategies that support their educational mission. Here's why:
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Spreading Community Thick: Open Source Communities of Practice

Co-Presenter: Allison Bloodworth, Senior User Interaction Designer, University of California, Berkeley
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Looking at Open Source Portfolio Systems

Thanks to the University of London, I was able to try out a few open source portfolio systems, including Elgg, Mahara and Moodle.
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Nate Moves On

After 5 years as Portland State's Director for Web Communications, I've moved on to work for The rSmart Group, a commercial provider of open source technologies working mostly in the education sector with Sakai, OSP and Kuali.
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