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Sakai: Open source alternative to Blackboard

Sakai: Open source alternative to BlackboardWeb 2.0 TechnologiesSakai has a great interface. I'm a University educator and our school is trying out both Moodle and Sakai. Anything is better than the Blackboard interface.My question is, what about Web 2.0 technologies? Doesn't Sakai still fall under Web 1.0, in that it...

Tags: Web 2.0, open source, Sakai

Discussion threads 2008-04-22

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Tags: Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-07-03

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me.Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today.Dan Farber: Now you've spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley. What made you decide to go into...

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Blog posts 2007-06-19

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me. Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today. Dan Farber: Now you've spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley....

Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Network, Student, Computer Science, Institution, Technology, Computer, Campus, Berkeley, Productivity, Networking, Wireless, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Blackboard promised not to sue universities

Blackboard Inc., the makers of proprietary software for "e-learning" systems is backing down from prosecuting patents against users of open source online classroom technology, reports Linux Insider. Blackboard promised to make a legally binding promise not to sue universities. There is one caveat, however. Blackboard may litigate against universities...

Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Blackboard Inc., patent

Blog posts 2007-02-05

Sakai: Open source alternative to Blackboard

Although Blackboard's much ballyhooed patent-fight with Desire2Learn, along with its recent aquisitition of WebCT has left a bad taste in some customers' mouths, there is an alternative in the online course-management software market. TechNews World reports that Sakai, oddly named after Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai of television fame,...

Tags: Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Blackboard wins e-learning patent, sues competitor

A patent infringement fight is on as Blackboard won a very broad patent on e-learning technology including “core technology relating to certain systems and methods involved in offering online education, including course management systems and enterprise e-Learning systems.” The company then immediately sued competitor Desire2Learn, a learning management system developer.Another...

Tags: Blackboard, patent

Blog posts 2006-08-17

Virtual Research Environments: Sakai Demonstrator

This paper provides an overview of work being undertaken in the JISC-funded Sakai VRE Demonstrator project. This is a collaboration of groups at Daresbury Laboratory and the Universities of Lancaster, Oxford and Portsmouth which are aiming to develop a highly-functional portal interface to distributed resources in a Virtual Research Environment....

Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Portals, Web Technology, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-08-18