Education

Build a Sakai/OSP Implementation Plan that Fits your Campus

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30 May 2006

A day-long, interactive session to craft a Sakai/OSP implementation plan tailored to your institution's characteristics, resources and needs. Each university considering Sakai and/or OSP is distinctive, but to ensure implementation success, each should prepare for issues common to any technology change, and a few issues unique to open/community source applications. Session leaders will help participants begin to develop a detailed implementation plan for their campus.

8th Sakai Conference

Newport Beach
California

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. read more »

Open Source Success

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23 Jul 2006

"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. read more »

Campus Technology

Chatsworth
California

Campus Technology is the only monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology across all areas of higher education.

Kindle Academic Publishing with Pronetos

The hype and opprobrium on Amazon's Kindle is out. The verdict is in: usability AND content are king. Depending on who you read, the Kindle succeeds or fails on one or both counts. read more »

Reporting = Aggregation

The funniest monkey and driving force behind DrupalEd, Bill Fitzgerald, just posted about a new feed aggregation demo via Drupal:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7271 read more »

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 Kualiread more »

UC-Davis University CMS Survey

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 Drupalread more »

Educational Futures

I just attended the first meeting of a parent/teacher/student group at my daughter's public, science/math/technology magnet school—Winterhaven. The group was formed to deal with a mandate from Portland Public Schools to grow the school's student body, and then necessarily move, or renovate, because the school's current building can only serve about 360 students. read more »