Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

It doesn’t matter where you are in terms of having access to knowledge or content. You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ? That college is like an information-rich oasis in an information-poor world. You had to go there to get it. Today that desert has gone green, and there is no more oasis. And it just was a disaster.

Sakai 81

Sakai MOOC Libraries LMS 81

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. A few examples include: Automattic provides a broad range of for-fee, value-added services around the open source WordPress software, including WordPress.com (hosting), WordPress.com VIP (hosting), Akismet (anti-spam), Jetpack (security), and many others.

OER 60

OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud. Sakai – this academic LMS also appears in at least one group’s paid hosting options. Mighty Networks Courses – provides hosting and tools for creating online classes.

Moodle 116

Moodle LMS Sakai VLE 116

Iterating Toward Openness

JUNE 9, 2016

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. Say, as a purely hypothetical example, that a member of a faculty team accidentally included a copyrighted resource in a collection of OER. Or, if you prefer an example closer to home, Reclaim Hosting.

OER 60

OER LMS Learning Sakai 60