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[Bodington-developers] [Fwd: [OBHE-alert] - report on SUNY Comparative Evaluation of LMS's

[Paul T. <pau...@ou...>]

Hi,

I'm forwarding an OBHE report on the evaluation of VLEs carried out by 
SUNY.  Oxford used to subscribe to OBHE, but not now, so I haven't read 
it.  However, I think Leeds does have a current subscription.

We did get some contact from them in the past (re Bodington 
installation) but then things went silent.  In October SUNY announced 
that they are building their own system, as reported by Michael 
Feldstein in his blog:
http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/suny_proposes_to_build_a_learning_management_operating_system/

"SLN Technology Strategy Report: Request for Public Comment (SLN RFPC). 
This document identifies a candidate solution that will integrate the 
open source application Uportal with best in class tools from other open 
source applications, including Sakai and LAMS."

See links of their Learning Network page at:
http://sln.suny.edu/index.html

OBHE article may be worth reading for future promotion of Bod.

Regards,

Paul
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[OBHE-alert] The latest Observatory Report is now available
Date: 	Wed, 03 May 2006 14:12:47 +0100
From: 	Info Observatory <in...@ob...>
Organisation: 	OBHE
To: 	obh...@ob...



The latest Monthly Report from the Observatory on Borderless Higher
Education is now available to subscribers.

Apples to Apples: Guidelines for Comparative Evaluation of Proprietary
and Open Educational Technology Systems

by Dr. Ken Udas, Director, and Michael Feldstein, Assistant Director,
SUNY Learning Network at the State University of New York, USA.

Selecting a learning management technology has increasingly become a
mission critical and strategic decision for higher education 
institutions. As technology supported and online learning has become
more prevalent and learning management technologies more important
institutional features, the selection environment has become
increasingly complex. This paper presents a comparative model developed
specifically for evaluating learning management software for adoption
decisions in which open source software (OSS) and proprietary options
are under consideration in higher education. It is intended to support
senior academic administrators and policy makers who are responsible for
or influence the software evaluation and selection process by proposing
a methodology that accounts for organisational context and software
system characteristics, while also providing the advantage of
cross-organisational comparison.

The full text is available to subscribers at:
http://www.obhe.ac.uk/products/reports/

**** The Observatory has recently made some exciting changes to its 
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Re: [Bodington-developers] [Fwd: [OBHE-alert] - report on SUNY Comparative Evaluation of LMS's

[Brian P. C. <bm...@bm...>]

Thanks, Paul - an interesting document.

I didn't read it, but I did search it.

Bodington 0 hits
Moodle 14 hits
interoperability 13 hits
osid 5 hits
oki 7 hits
sakai 9 hits
shibboleth 0 hits
web services 0 hits

I look forward to seeing the SUNY LMS.

Regards,

Brian



> Hi,
> 
> I'm forwarding an OBHE report on the evaluation of VLEs carried out by 
> SUNY.  Oxford used to subscribe to OBHE, but not now, so I haven't read 
> it.  However, I think Leeds does have a current subscription.
> 
> We did get some contact from them in the past (re Bodington 
> installation) but then things went silent.  In October SUNY announced 
> that they are building their own system, as reported by Michael 
> Feldstein in his blog:
> http://mfeldstein.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/suny_proposes_to_build_a_learning_management_operating_system/
> 
> "SLN Technology Strategy Report: Request for Public Comment (SLN RFPC). 
> This document identifies a candidate solution that will integrate the 
> open source application Uportal with best in class tools from other open 
> source applications, including Sakai and LAMS."
> 
> See links of their Learning Network page at:
> http://sln.suny.edu/index.html
> 
> OBHE article may be worth reading for future promotion of Bod.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> ---
> pau...@ou...
> WebLearn: http://www.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[OBHE-alert] The latest Observatory Report is now available
> Date: 	Wed, 03 May 2006 14:12:47 +0100
> From: 	Info Observatory <in...@ob...>
> Organisation: 	OBHE
> To: 	obh...@ob...
> 
> 
> 
> The latest Monthly Report from the Observatory on Borderless Higher
> Education is now available to subscribers.
> 
> Apples to Apples: Guidelines for Comparative Evaluation of Proprietary
> and Open Educational Technology Systems
> 
> by Dr. Ken Udas, Director, and Michael Feldstein, Assistant Director,
> SUNY Learning Network at the State University of New York, USA.
> 
> Selecting a learning management technology has increasingly become a
> mission critical and strategic decision for higher education 
> institutions. As technology supported and online learning has become
> more prevalent and learning management technologies more important
> institutional features, the selection environment has become
> increasingly complex. This paper presents a comparative model developed
> specifically for evaluating learning management software for adoption
> decisions in which open source software (OSS) and proprietary options
> are under consideration in higher education. It is intended to support
> senior academic administrators and policy makers who are responsible for
> or influence the software evaluation and selection process by proposing
> a methodology that accounts for organisational context and software
> system characteristics, while also providing the advantage of
> cross-organisational comparison.
> 
> The full text is available to subscribers at:
> http://www.obhe.ac.uk/products/reports/
> 
> **** The Observatory has recently made some exciting changes to its 
> website. New features include an improved site search engine, which is 
> available at http://www.obhe.ac.uk/cgi-bin/swish.pl?si=0&si=1&query=. If 
> you have any feedback about these changes, please do not hesitate to 
> contact us using our new feedback form at 
> http://www.obhe.ac.uk/feedback.html ****
> 
> The Observatory currently has over 150 institutional subscribers from
> more than forty countries. For a list of current subscribers, and
> details of how to subscribe, please visit:
> http://www.obhe.ac.uk/subscriptions/
> 
> _______________________________________________
> If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, please go to:
> https://secure.acu.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/obhe-alert
> 
> 
> 
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