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Innovativ Consulting Partners announces new options for evaluating Kuali Rice

by Tony DiSanza on 11/19/2009 00:00   0 comments , 163 views
“We would like to encourage more institutions to investigate and evaluate Kuali Rice with minimal obstacles.  These alternatives provide the institution that would like to evaluate Kuali Rice without re-deploying or making a hardware investment.  – Tony DiSanza – Managing Director, Innovativ Consulting Partners
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rSmart Announces Release of Third rSmart Sakai CLE 2.6 Service Pack to Customers

by News on 02/23/2010 23:00   0 comments , 33 views
rSmart, the provider of enterprise support for open source application software in education, today announced the release of its third service pack for the rSmart Sakai CLE 2.6, the company’s fully tested, optimized, and supported commercial version of the open source software.
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Open Source, Why or Why Not? Market Research White Paper Made Available by Unicon

by News on 02/12/2010 10:18   0 comments , 54 views
Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source IT consulting services for the higher education market, today published its market research findings from the EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference in the white paper “'The Future of Free': Open Source, Why Or Why Not?”
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Unicon Technologists Deliver Presentations at the Jasig Spring 2010 Conference, “Ten Years of Open Source Innovation”

by News on 02/03/2010 23:00   0 comments , 45 views
Unicon, Inc., the leading provider of open source IT consulting services for the higher education market, will be presenting and participating in a total of seventeen technical seminars and presentations at the upcoming Jasig Spring 2010 Conference, “Ten Years of Open Source Innovation,” being held in San Diego, California, March 7-10, 2010.
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Sakai, Small Schools, and Pedagogy

by Michael Feldstein on 01/31/2010 13:51   0 comments , 41 views
Sakai has a reputation for being technology-driven and focused on the needs of large research universities. There was some truth both of those claims in the early years of the project. However, the recent election of the Sakai Foundation Board Chair and Vice Chair are strong indicators that neither claim is true anymore. The community [...]
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Testing free video editing tools and techniques

by Kelly Walsh on 01/24/2010 10:09   0 comments , 24 views
The 3rd post in a series focused on free tools for recording, editing, and publishing video tutorials. I’ve been working this month to find a set of free tools that can enable me to produce and distribute video tutorials. Picking up where I left off last week, this weekend I pursued the idea of using Windows Movie Maker as a free editing tool [...]
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Marist's Baron Elected Chair Of Sakai Foundation Board

by Lauren Hart Piper on 01/18/2010 23:00   0 comments , 44 views
Josh Baron, director of academic technology and eLearning at Marist College, has been elected to a full-term as chair of the Sakai Foundation Board of Directors for the coming year.
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Penn Libraries Partner with Kuali OLE to Develop 21st Century Library Management Software

by Lauren Hart Piper on 01/11/2010 12:13   0 comments , 52 views
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has granted $2.38 million to the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) project, of which the University of Pennsylvania Libraries are a founding partner. The project’s goal is to develop and freely distribute community source software designed specifically for the management of print and electronic collections for academic and research libraries worldwide.
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Sakai Learning Capabilities Brainstorming

by Michael Feldstein on 01/09/2010 17:00   0 comments , 16 views
This is a guest post by David Goodrum. David is Director of Academic and Faculty Services at Indiana University and a member of the Sakai Foundation Product Council. I asked David to write a post about the process that he started to help ensure that Sakai 3 will be teacher- and student-centric in its design....
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How to Understand and Follow the Sakai Foundation

by Michael Feldstein on 01/08/2010 09:42   0 comments , 44 views
My friend Patrick Masson has started an EDUCAUSE wiki page to develop a working definition of “openness”. I’m going to sidestep the hot debate around that topic and focus instead on the distinction he makes between openness and transparency, which he defines as “provid[ing] the stakeholder community access to–and perhaps even a platform to inform–the [...]
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10 free screencasting tools to check out!

by Kelly Walsh on 01/06/2010 08:50   0 comments , 44 views
A growing list of free Internet based applications for screen capture and presentation creation. In response to this week’s post about Jing, my colleagues at Classroom 2.0 have informed me of a number of similar tools (”thank you!” to everyone who responded to my Discussion Post on this). Of course, it’s easy to search this stuff out, [...]
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