LMS Madness, and Why I’m Mad

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

Why scalability isn’t enough

Lots of folks responded rather strongly to my suggestion that talking about and focusing on scalability is immoral. As usual, I appear to have done a poor job articulating my feelings. đŸ™‚ The focus on scalability scares me because it only focuses on reaching lots of people, on reaching large numbers of people, on reaching … Read more

A New Hope for cc.edu

Back in August of 2003 I proposed that rather than create a new education license, we rebrand the By-NC-SA license as the cc.edu. The idea had lots of traction on the list – Stephen even agreed eventually đŸ˜‰ – as did many others (see August – December 2003 posts). However, because of some push back … Read more