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LMS Madness, and Why I’m Mad

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So by now you’ve heard – Blackboard is buying WebCT, and in 18 months or so there will be one uberproduct. We all saw this coming, but still – wow. Why am I mad? Because the state of Utah just completed a bid process to license and buy support for an LMS to be used … Read more

On Sustainability

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Several interesting thoughts about sustainability are making the rounds after our recent conference. I thought Kerry struck a particularly alarming chord: Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is a good example – once enc.org, home to a plethora of math-based lesson plans, tutorials, java applets, etc. – now a paid subscription site due to the end of NSF … Read more