“ Sakai Is Probably Healthier Than You Think,” Michael Feldstein suggests. Education Politics. “ Education Department Proposes New Regulations to Protect Students and Taxpayers from Predatory Institutions.” ” From the Times Higher Education by way of Inside Higher Ed : “Poll of faculty members and administrators in British higher education finds they want their country to remain in E.U. MORE

Sakai instructional design learning5 from @ProfHacker and a few of my own @AnaSalter. MORE

News Product info Strategies assessment learning LMS Sakaicreate items in the app and port them over, using the markup options in the LMS. MORE

” UC Davis suffered a week-long LMS outage , and lots of folks had to weigh in with their thoughts on what this meant about Sakai , running one’s own infrastructure , and open source. Via Edutechnica : “ Sakai by the Numbers.” Education Politics. “ New Education Law: Bipartisan No More.” ” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented. MORE

We manually rebuilt each course half a dozen times or more, in Blackboard, Sakai, Canvas, and other systems. The tl;dr: Supporting effective OER adoption at scale has its problems. Many of these problems have openly licensed solutions. MORE

Sakai Strategies assessment distance learningAssessment was the topic for the final week of the BlendKit course and the reading included a great list of rubrics to help participants examine their own work. My favorite rubric came from Blackboard’s Exemplary Course Program. It was developed for a contest but can just as easily help instructors directly examine course materials for a blended or hybrid course in […]. MORE

I wonder if that holds true across other LMS tools (Moodle, Sakai, Canvas, etc). How do instructors and learners use learning management systems? Blackboard shared some interesting stats about what people actually do with their LMS. MORE

The five most popular LMSs (Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas, D2L and Sakai), which account for more than 90 percent of the market share in higher education, are all designed based on a 10-year-old standard called the Learning Tools Interoperability (or LTI) standard. This article is written as a response to this commentary by Matthew Rascoff.who never asked for this. In the interest of full disclosure: I’m a co-founder of Acadly. MORE

Unplag can be integrated with LMSes like Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle and Canvas. . Many schools have adopted plagiarism detectors and Unplag is an online tools for teachers and students designed to support academic integrity. MORE