EduGeek Journal

The recent announcement of the partnership between Pearson and Google is certainly an interesting one. Many people have been calling for Google to get into the LMS business for years and years (although, I believe most were hoping that Google would actually design one and not just add someone else’s ideas to their Apps for Education). New ideas are [...]

Katrina turned me on to a new Course Management System called CourseKit.  The kicker about this one is that it was conceived and designed by three students with full time course loads because they weren’t happy with Blackboard. First of all, I have to say that if students are having problems with Blackboard, to the [...]

Embedded below is an interesting interview with Martin Dougiamas, founder of Moodle.  The interview was originally posted on Michael Feldstein’s e-Literate site (who also conducted the interview and asked some great questions).  The entire thing in interesting, but there are two key points that interest people that are interested in the New Vision for the [...]

Courtesy of Metamedia and Pete – the Adventures of Bollywood Blackboard-wala: Ep. 1 Paying The Annual Licensing Fee Ep. 2 Dealing with Customers Looking at the Open Source Alternative Ep. 3 Dealing with the Patent Invalidation Ruling Ep. 4 Confronting the Open Source Challenge Ep. 5 Live from Blackboardwala World 2008 Ep. 6 Dealing with [...]

Are you ready for it? I have to say that I was not ready, basically because I had put off some programming stuff based on the notion that I needed to “wait until Moodle 1.9 was released to move forward.” Doh! But, other than little personal kick in the pants (that I needed), all I [...]

They said it would be out by March, and they just made it by March 31st – Moodle 1.8. And with this release, Moodle continues to put the hurt on the other Learning Management Systems out there. Here are some of the features in the new version of Moodle: Strict XHTML 1.0 compliance. Not Transitional [...]

The EduGeeks (all two of us for now) were discussing the Blog Tags sidebar last night. Katrina had noticed that the tags were all the same size. I looked in to it and found that each tag will grow in size depending on the number of times they are used. The more popular ones will [...]