Category: Management Systems

  • I wonder how Mixable Perdue can get…

    I spotted this today in the hype of all the Facebook news (it’s getting a more intelligent group feature as opposed to lists). Mixable takes elements from existing web/cloud based systems and rolls them into something that seems very much to be a “public garden” style content/learning management system. The bonus with this system is…

  • Maybe it’s the money – nee Thoughts on Collaborate III

    @idarknight my reaction to BbWimbaLluminate was more financially based than anything. how can we justify burning money with free options?less than a minute ago via Tweetie for MacD’Arcy Normandlnorman @dlnorman I was wanting to include that as some part of the post, but the money arguement is a sticky one, so I’ve left it to…

  • Knee Jerk Reactions

    I know I’m guilty of this myself, but I caught myself wondering while I was out for a run this morning… is the edtech-sphere disliking the BB Collaborate announcement because of some real concerns with regards to BB and how they do things to those systems that they acquire, or is it something more “religious”?…

  • Oh BB… what won’t you buy (maybe Sakai?)

    Well, if you are not on Twitter, you can be forgiven (perhaps) for not seeing the flood of “OMG BB bought both Wimba and Elluminate!” tweets as Blackboard averse edtechers start to run for the hills as the franken system to be known as Blackboard Collaborate rises. So for those who are not already sitting…

  • Collaboration vs Destination

    Dan Pontefract makes an interesting point in his post about the standalone LMS being dead: But … to change the culture, you also need to drive an organization to believe that training does not only happen in an event (ILT and eLearning) and thus, by keeping the standalone LMS alive and kicking, you exacerbate the…