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By Phil HillMore Posts (446) In episode 1, we looked at an effort by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin to develop SMOCs – Synchronous Massive Online Courses – where the core of the redesign … Continue reading → The post UT Austin and SMOCs: What do we know about whether they work? appeared first on e-Literate.

By Phil HillMore Posts (446) This morning the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about City College of San Francisco (CCSF) having to repay the state of California $39 million due to an audit of distance education courses. City College … ... [More] Continue reading → The post Price Of Faculty Not Using LMS? $39 million for CCSF appeared first on e-Literate. [Less]

By Phil HillMore Posts (446) Two months ago O’Neal Spicer and I wrote an op-ed for the Community College Daily describing our observations on the California Online Education Initiative (OEI). We don’t often write about clients of ours, but in this … ... [More] Continue reading → The post Explainer Videos on Course Exchanges and the Shared Infrastructure Behind Them appeared first on e-Literate. [Less]

Save the Date: Apereo Lightning Talk Pitch Event December 15, 2016 Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:00 am Eastern time

By Phil HillMore Posts (445) Last month we shared a video describing how the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin is taking a different approach than some of the courseware-based or other course redesign efforts. In many of … ... [More] Continue reading → The post UT Austin and SMOCs: What these synchronous courses look like and cost appeared first on e-Literate. [Less]

By Phil HillMore Posts (445) In episode 1, we looked at an effort by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin to develop SMOCs – Synchronous Massive Online Courses – where the core of the redesign … Continue reading → The post UT Austin and SMOCs: What do we know about whether they work? appeared first on e-Literate.

The past year has brought a lot of progress and adoption in the Tsugi project. A NodeJS version of Tsugi has been developed in addition of the existing PHP and Java implementations. The library code has been refactored to focus on providing the Tsugi libraries using the Composer dependency management system. Support for IMS Common […]

The past year has been very eventful for Sakai. The Sakai-11 release was completed with the new frameless (Morpheus) portal, new Grade Book, responsive design, and many other game changing features to bring Sakai very much in line with the best LMS systems in the marketplace. A large number of Sakai sites are moving their […]

If open educational resources are to truly compete with commercial publishers, we must provide a full set of open capabilities that support a book. Publishers provide learning resources in a learning object repository (LOR) that allows remixing and ... [More] easy integration into learning management systems using protocols like LTI. Publishers provide learning resources like slides, assignment, […] [Less]

By Phil HillMore Posts (445) This morning the San Francisco Chronicle published an article about City College of San Francisco (CCSF) having to repay the state of California $39 million due to an audit of distance education courses. City College … ... [More] Continue reading → The post Price Of Faculty Not Using LMS? $39 million for CCSF appeared first on e-Literate. [Less]