Ira Fuchs at the Sakai Conference

Ira Fuchs made the closing keynote at Sakai today and gave a great list of open source software that he saw as potentially revolutionizing higher education. I list those (with a few others we talked about at dinner last) here: Sakai, Kuali, Open Source Portfolio Initiative, eduCommons, Asterisk, Zimbra, OJAX. Ira’s talk set out a … Read more

Structured Blogging for Learning Objects?

You probably know about Structured Blogging, a WordPress plugin for easily creating human and machine readable posts of specific kinds. (This is a screenshot of the authoring interface.) You can see the results under my book reviews tag. What I want to know is this – why haven’t we created a WordPress plugin for creating … Read more