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Drupal Wins 2008 Webware 100 Award

21 Apr 2008 By Nate Angell Leave a Comment

For the second year running, Drupal placed in the Webware 100 awards in the Publishing & Photography category.

In this publishing category, the only other contender in the top 10 that comes close to matching the flexibility and functionality of Drupal was WordPress, which would probably do well to continue to focus on the blog niche and not try to play catch-up with the more mature Drupal (current versions: Drupal 6.2, WP 2.5). Missing altogether were projects that match up better with Drupal, such as Joomla and Plone.

Check out all 10 winners:

UC-Davis University CMS Survey

24 Oct 2007 By Nate Angell 2 Comments

UC-Davis just published results from a well-designed survey on university web content management system usage.

Over 60% of respondents were using a web CMS and homegrown/open source systems were more common than proprietary systems. Plone/Zope combined was the most common, followed closely by Homegrown, and then Drupal.

Today, the Requirements and Evaluation committee of the UC Davis Web CMS initiative posted results from an online survey of campuses completed last month.

The survey was conducted to collect comprehensive data about the adoption and use of Web content management systems among institutions of higher education, and to make this information available to communicators, webmasters, technologists and other key campus personnel. Our goal was to learn about the experiences – both positive and negative – of other universities in the adoption of Web CMS, and to share this information with those who may currently be considering the same.

Read the summary, and view and discuss the survey results at:
http://pubcomm-29.ucdavis.edu/?p=35

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Community Source Is Dead

More recently, Brad and University of Michigan's Dean of Libraries James Hilton codified what they consider to be the contrasts between open source and Community Source in their essay "The Marketecture of Community," and which Brad elaborates on in his piece "Speeding Up On Curves." They represent different models of procuring software in a two-by-two matrix, where the dimensions are "authority" and "influence":

authority and influence in dimensions in procurement of proprietary and commercial educational technology

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Amara - Caption, translate, subtitle and transcribe video.

Caption, Subtitle and Translate Video

Amara: the nonprofit transcription service.

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#DigCiz – Call for Engagement: What do we owe students when we collect their data?

Data has value; what do we owe students when we collect their data?

It would behoove us to be clear about all the "we"s that collect student data: from teachers, to depts, to institutions, to software vendors, to accreditors, to govt agencies, to third parties that harvest data from these other "we"s. Perhaps our first duty is to help students understand the constellation of data collection and sharing they (and we all) participate in, so they can start understanding and be better prepared to make informed choices.

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The role of the faculty in the post-LMS world (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed

Lastly, professors need to fight for a post-LMS world that allows all faculty to make a living wage. I can’t help but suspect that at least some of the administrative fondness for learning management systems stems from a desire to systematize teaching and deskill professors as part of that process. When everything about teaching online is systematized and deskilled, it becomes easier to train anyone, anywhere to teach our courses.

This is, I think, the core of the issue. All the worthy things the author calls for are not practical in a world where there aren't faculty positions with enough time and resources to make them work. The LMS is less about delivering online education than it is about delivering education in general in a controlled system with boundaries that helps make it easier to deliver without trained faculty with time on their hands.

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Success through Collaboration: Establishing a Stakeholder-Driven Governance Process

Success through Collaboration: Establishing a Stakeholder-Driven Governance Process

A stakeholder-based IT governance and management strategy.

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Do we need an Open Science coalition?

Do we need an Open Science coalition?

Jon Tennant thinks through an important question.

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Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability

One concrete example of combining constructionism and openness into OER-enabled pedagogy is Wiley's (2013) notion of "renewable assignments," which he contrasts with "disposable assignments."

I don't see "renewable assignments" mentioned in Wiley's 2013 work.

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Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability

We define OER-enabled pedagogy as the set of teaching and learning practices that are only possible or practical in the context of the 5R permissions which are characteristic of OER.

Definition of "OER-enabled pedagogy".

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Digital Transformation: What Is It?

Digital Transformation: What Is It?

Digital transformation in EDU.

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Open Knowledge Institutions

Advancement occurs as a reward for connectedness and usefulness, not for elite recognition.

Change the metric of EDU success from excellence to connectedness and usefulness.

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Open Knowledge Institutions

Open knowledge institutions of higher learning foreground and prioritise the constituent communities that their students, alumni, faculty, staff, administrators, partners and collaborators both comprise and promote.

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Opinion | The Never-Ending Disruption of American History

Political and technological dislocation have fed off each other since the nation’s founding. Now they are dangerously out of whack.

The underlying premise is that there used to be a balance between tech innovation and political response in the USA, but since Reagan, there has not.

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A radically open approach to developing infrastructure for Open Science

I believe a model where commercial providers develop and maintain open scholarly communications infrastructure requires four basic principles of openness: Open Source, Open Data, Open Integrations, and Open Contracts.

Hindawi CEO lays out the four elements he sees as key to proprietary companies participating effectively in building and providing infrastructure to support open science.

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Promoting innovation and reducing inequity in scholarship: Europe’s Plan S for Open Science

The plan, which was initiated by Robert Jan Smits, the Open Access Envoy of the European Commission, outlines 10 principles, which can be distilled into four essential actions:

A summary of Plan S, the European plan to support open access publishing.

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Stakeholder FAQs

FAQs on open access policies from the Open Research Funders Group.

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Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

Open education resources and perceptions of financial value

OER and cost perceptions.

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Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part II | National Review

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part II

Also see [Part I of this interview](https://hyp.is/0e4qkrRwEeiXf9foltyMXw/www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/jonathan-haidt-coddling-of-the-american-mind-igen-students/) with Jonathan Haidt.

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Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1 | National Review

Are We Setting a Generation Up for Failure? Part 1

Also see [Part II of this interview](https://hyp.is/rtvD8rRwEei5Ac-jMgZp7A/www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/jonathan-haidt-coddling-of-the-american-mind-college-experience/) with Jonathan Haidt.

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