tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103409512012-02-17T01:48:22.160+01:00This weblog has been discontinued as of December 2007. It was started in June 2005 by Wytze Koopal for the Edutrip 2005 (studytrip by Dutch visitors to the Educause annual conference in Orlando in October 2005). Since January 2006 this was the place of my personal weblog. This weblog contains my personal opinions and reflections on developments in elearning, LMS, CMS, VLE's, opensource etc.<br> ==== Please go to www.koopaladvies.nl for current news (mostly in Dutch) ====Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-80426341400636102382007-12-17T10:50:00.000+01:002007-12-17T10:54:35.879+01:00

Dit weblog wordt vanaf vandaag (17 december 2007) niet meer onderhouden. Er zijn 177 berichten verschenen in 31 maanden op dit weblog. Maar, ik kan mijn tijd maar één keer besteden. En dat doe ik dan maar op mijn eigen website :-)Dus, update je feed reader en/of bookmarks naar http://www.koopaladvies.nl. Bedankt en tot ziens!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-78464782292676303262007-12-04T09:29:00.001+01:002007-12-04T09:29:55.011+01:00

Pierre Gorissen wordt goed gelezen. En ook zijn EduKast wordt goed beluisterd. Maar lees ook eens de reactie van Catharina Bethlehem, zelfstandig ondernemer en voorstander van open standaarden. Zie Gezeur over open source software | Kletskous Pierre Gorrissen bekritiseerd in deze podcast de brief van Jan Stedehouder aan de NMA en de reacties daarop. Pierre slaat in de podcast de plank naar mijn

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-77417911654007016262007-11-28T16:43:00.001+01:002007-11-28T16:43:39.492+01:00

Gezien op Livre - Open, Vrij en Duurzaam: Europese onderwijsconferentie in het teken van delen : In Utrecht vindt op vrijdag 14 december in de bibliotheek van de Universiteit Utrecht (Boothzaal - Campus de Uithof) een Europese conferentie ('Networks, Communities & Learning: Show that you Share!') plaats, georganiseerd door het Bazaar-project en IVLOS, het onderwijsinstituut van de Universiteit

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-31521767584878580222007-11-23T14:51:00.001+01:002007-11-23T14:51:34.911+01:00

Adam Cooper in the UK recently blogged about Kuali Student Services System . A glance at the Technical Architecture Principles is worthwhile, both for what it says as well as what it doesn’t. It is very committed to SOAP web services and service orientation. On this front, I think the student services system effort will be useful even if it fails miserably: a contributor and proving ground for

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-25919812500824231022007-11-15T15:14:00.001+01:002007-11-15T15:14:43.603+01:00

Recently Gmail got a great new feature, namely IMAP support. What else do you want (or need)? IMAP is an advanced email protocol. Basically it means that changes made to Gmail will be synchronised anytime anyplace anydevice.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-55913844752112133502007-10-25T20:30:00.000+02:002007-10-25T20:31:24.687+02:00

Will be back on Nov 11, 2007. See ya!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-66334557258910049902007-10-22T16:03:00.001+02:002007-10-22T16:43:13.993+02:00

This has been picked up already in the blogosphere and on news sites, here, in the New York Times, or here.... But anyway.The concept of the 'last lecture' is meant for professors to really think about what they would like to tell in their last lecture. A few 'last lectures' already have been given. A really powerful concept, isn't it? Forget all the humbug and daily routines: you have just so

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-27215738454387818922007-10-15T16:34:00.001+02:002007-10-15T16:34:41.631+02:00

Door Bloglines blijf ik op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws, ook uit de regio. Zo lees ik in de TC Tubantia dat er is ingebroken op een 'schoolcomputer'.Het bericht is niet erg helder, vind ik. Maar in ieder geval is de jongen geschorst vanwege zijn daden. Volgens mij had hij goed gebruik gemaakt van 'social engineering'. En hij vond een bestand dat niet op de desbetreffende computer had mogen

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-57251474452296345522007-10-08T16:11:00.001+02:002007-10-08T16:11:41.776+02:00

UC Berkeley is one of the most innovative universities in the world, in my opinion. They don't debate endlessly, but they just move forward in deploying the newest technologies. They have their own channel on iTunes, and most recently they have launched on YouTube.Check out their press release from last week, titled Campus launches YouTube channel : "BERKELEY – Further expanding public access to

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-35165795574978280372007-09-22T15:50:00.000+02:002007-09-22T16:06:21.570+02:00

Om preciezer te zijn: waarom ik denk dat SURFgroepen best leuk is, maar ook risicovol is. Enkele redenen die ik de lezer niet wil onthouden:1/ Zouden we blij moeten zijn met een monocultuur, waarin we allemaal SURFgroepen gaan gebruiken (omdat het bijvoorbeeld 'gratis' is)?2/ Beseffen we ons dat SURFgroepen een aantal garanties niet geeft? Zoals daar bijvoorbeeld is: geen backup. De officiële

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-33682882497509630002007-09-21T14:25:00.001+02:002007-09-21T14:25:25.850+02:00

[this is in Dutch] SURFnet is wel erg druk om SURFgroepen te promoten.... Onlangs werd een oproep geplaatst om mee te helpen om SURFgroepen beter bekend te maken (bron).Ik zou de collega's in het land willen oproepen om NIET mee te doen aan deze campagne!Wil je weten waarom ik deze oproep plaats? Omdat ik vind dat SURFnet hiermee nogal inbreuk maakt op wat er gaande is in onze instellingen, waar

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-25063381879876784812007-08-07T09:09:00.001+02:002007-08-07T09:09:33.756+02:00

Recently some news came out in the Blackboard patent case. As Chris Coppola writesDesire2Learn wins round one against Blackboard patent: "Congratulations to D2L (=Desire2Learn) in an important victory against Blackboard and their bogus patent. Apparently the judge ruled that the 1st claim (and all dependent claims 2-35) are invalid."Source: weblog Desire2Learn.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-17616272117616954872007-08-03T16:35:00.001+02:002007-08-03T16:35:01.352+02:00

John Martin has a weblog, that i regularly visit. It is called Edventures in Technolgy (great name). One of his recent posts is on the The Educause 7 Things You Should Series : "(..) I find looking at the timeline of releases interesting from an anthropological perspective as it illustrates where the edtech interest was focused over the past two years that these briefs have been published."You

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-75918262741467601622007-08-02T13:57:00.001+02:002007-08-02T13:57:36.119+02:00

I came across the JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching. And then I read this:"The June 2008 issue of JOLT will be a special issue, centered on the topic of next generation learning/course management systems (L/CMS). (..) new technologies present diverse ideas and opportunities for engaged e-learning (..)."A theme that is mentioned for this special issue is "Open source vs commercial

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-21868014582241420052007-07-18T13:48:00.001+02:002007-07-18T13:48:58.579+02:00

HP and MIT Create Non-profit Organization to Support Growing Community of DSpace Users HP (NYSE:HPQ) and the MIT Libraries today announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of institutions that use DSpace, an open source software solution for accessing, managing and preserving scholarly works in a digital archive.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-40061109368495818762007-07-17T09:17:00.001+02:002007-07-17T09:17:55.866+02:00

The JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), based in the UK, has a great Standards Catalogue. The information has been collated by UKOLN (Brian Kelly). This kind of resource is, for me, very valuable. Otherwise I would have been surfing the net endlessly.The information is not restricted to purely 'open' standards, which (at this moment in time, that is) is understandable. The information is

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-64592527001916059202007-07-01T12:47:00.000+02:002007-07-01T12:58:51.998+02:00

Going into the summer I just want to point my readers (who are you, anyway!) to a very interesting article that I recently reread.It is a very good interview of Christina Smart (JISC) with Patrick Masson. Patrick Masson is the former Director of Technology for the SUNY Learning Network. He talks extensively, and very honestly (!), about what happened when they tried to implement a

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-22978816004518746052007-06-26T11:28:00.001+02:002007-06-26T11:28:39.249+02:00

Stephen Downes has a very interesting take on all those open API's that are available in today's world. Check out his article, titled Six Basic Truths of Free APIs, where he references George Siemens also.This is the summary: "You seem to get a lot more functionality coding on top of Google search or Google maps. And yes, a lot of people are coding for, say, the Google API instead of creating

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-17182261774277406362007-06-07T20:01:00.001+02:002007-06-07T20:01:28.539+02:00

Gisteren al verklapt bij TV Oost (zonder dat de genomineerden het wisten), maar nu is het officieel: Teletop BV is genomineerd voor de Rising Star Verkiezing Twente. Op 27 juni weten we meer!Jongens: hiermee alvast gefeliciteerd!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-3589234967384573522007-06-07T09:37:00.001+02:002007-06-07T09:39:15.195+02:00

Op de Edusite is deze week een verhaal verschenen met als titel Open source elo groot in Vlaamse hoger onderwijs . Het artikel begint met de bewering dat het in Nederland maar niet wil lukken:"Open source software heeft in het Vlaamse hoger onderwijs een steviger voet aan de grond dan in Nederland. Aanjager is de Universiteit Gent, dat als eerste universiteit de elektronische leeromgeving Dokeos

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-26116111751435285222007-06-05T11:09:00.001+02:002007-06-05T11:09:20.668+02:00

Directeur Wim Liebrand doet een oproep aan onze huidige minister Plasterk, die in een vorig 'leven' wetenschapper was. Lees de column Kantklossen in de Achterhoek, waarbij hij Plasterk oproept om zijn verzet tegen Cream of Science (DAREnet) te staken.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-24658117415077401942007-05-21T10:42:00.001+02:002007-06-07T09:38:14.686+02:00

We are only three weeks away from the next (the 7th) Sakai conference, which will be held in Amsterdam. Registration is still possible. Your investment is only $395 for three days of Sakai!The number of sessions is considerable: there are 125 sessions in the schedule right now. So there is something for everyone!The number of sessions with (one or more) Dutch speakers is quite good. On my last

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-11539393198479764432007-04-24T19:36:00.000+02:002007-04-24T19:37:37.194+02:00

I will be AFK (Away From Keyboard) for 3 weeks. See you then!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1069852439418653462007-04-13T10:02:00.000+02:002007-04-13T10:03:52.023+02:00

{Dutch} De Edusite heeft een interessant artikel over outsourcing..... Lees maar eens het artikelHAN besteedt examencorrectie uit aan India: "De Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN) gaat een proef doen met het outsourcen van examencorrectie. Samen met het Limburgse bedrijf Océ, vooral bekend als fabrikant van kopieerapparaten en printers, is de hogeschool een pilot gestart waarin Engelstalige

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-29505462998786410082007-03-30T12:43:00.001+02:002007-03-30T12:43:02.943+02:00

Coen Free is voorzitter van het Koning Willem 1 College in Tilburg. Hij wordt door Jef van den Hurk (terecht!) in het zonnetje gezet: "(..) is inmiddels gestart met zijn eigen beweging voor Nog Beter Onderwijs waar hij een aantal zaken op de agenda zet. Hij pleit met name voor een effectieve benutting van het schooljaar, een verlenging van de basisschool en verkorting van het voortgezet onderwijs

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-16836704082092704122007-03-23T10:55:00.000+01:002007-03-23T11:12:49.474+01:00

{In Dutch} Ken je ToPoS? Dit is de alumni-vereniging van TO.... En TO staat voor Toegepaste Onderwijskunde, de unieke opleiding aan de Universiteit Twente. Tegenwoordig is deze doctoraal-opleiding niet meer. Er is nu een Bachelor-opleiding Educational Design, Management and Media (EDMM).De alumni-vereniging ToPoS is zeer actief. Op 5 april is er weer een interessante conferentie, met als titel "

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-66626874542073090432007-03-22T10:38:00.000+01:002007-03-22T10:44:18.623+01:00

{this will be in Dutch} SURFfoundation organiseerde eerder deze maand een volgeboekte ICT Bedrijvendag, met als hoofdthema de services-benadering, of in het Engels Service Oriented Architecture. Er waren interessante sprekers van het Archimate Forum en van bedrijven als Ordina, Educator, SAP, Oracle en Blackboard.De boodschap was helder wat mij betreft: alleen doen als de 'business' (je bazen) er

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-13037515767907305872007-03-21T16:09:00.001+01:002007-03-21T16:09:44.268+01:00

{In Dutch} Goed nieuws voor Teletop BV: hun flagship product TeleTOP zal via School Online! Dat gaat voor een mooie exposure zorgen! Zie School Online - Internetverbinding :"KPN introduceert twee nieuwe diensten voor scholen: de elektronische leeromgeving TeleTOP en Schoolpix voor online beheer van schoolfoto's. Zo kunnen scholen nog beter profiteren van de mogelijkheden die internet biedt."

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-36905486713212398452007-03-14T12:50:00.001+01:002007-03-14T12:50:11.905+01:00

Sometimes you come across a weblog that really blows your mind. I mean, the posts on the weblog blow your mind (or make you think!). The weblog called "Ed Tech Journeys" is one of them. I can't seem to find a name of the author, but the URL is http://preilly.wordpress.com, so the author's last name is Reilly I suppose. She (or he) is a teacher, or someone who consults with teachers and managers

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-83825127894381981872007-02-19T09:27:00.000+01:002007-02-19T09:41:26.867+01:00

I was away for a few weeks, sunbathing in Sri Lanka.Yesterday I have tried to touch my Bloglines.... Ough! A lot of stuff is waiting to be read....This afternoon I will be present at a meeting at the SURF offices where all community managers of SURF special interest groups (SIG's) will be present: Sakai (my group!), Webstroom, Portfolio, Standards etc. We will investigate where we can strengthen

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-33290666708981561802007-01-31T09:39:00.000+01:002007-01-31T09:46:09.743+01:00

Surf will organize a bedrijvendag on March 7, 2007. Read this (in Dutch): "Het hoger onderwijs heeft te maken met belangrijke maatschappelijke trends zoals klantgerichtheid, flexibilisering en efficiëntieverbetering. Dit stelt niet alleen hoger onderwijsinstellingen voor nieuwe uitdagingen, maar ook leveranciers die zich in de ICT-markt bewegen. Tijdens de ICT Bedrijvendag buigen hoger

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-79411725083682624712007-01-29T10:28:00.001+01:002007-01-29T10:28:56.652+01:00

Through a mailinglist I am subcribed to (I really don't recall which one, anymore), I was directed to a great paper, published in November 2002 (!). The paper discusses the issues that we all have: what to do with 'old' courses on our course management system (or LMS or VLE).The author, Clifford Lynch, who is Executive director of the Coalition of Networked Information (www.cni.org), argues that

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-36266106091482341922007-01-19T10:39:00.001+01:002007-01-19T10:40:41.784+01:00

Several national ICT-bodies urge you to sign their petition that will be handed over the European Commission.What are you signing for? For freedom, for open access to research findings and results: "The following actions could be taken at the European level: (i) Establish a European policy mandating published articles arising from EC-funded research to be available after a given time period in

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-71459798928682845012007-01-17T10:42:00.001+01:002007-01-17T10:50:07.902+01:00

JISC is worth every penny that they get! That's the message that i get from a report that was published yesterday.Or in their own words: "For every £1 spent on the JISC services budget, the UK education and research community receives £9 of demonstrable value. This is one of the findings of a newly-published value for money report commissioned by JISC to uncover some of the ‘hidden’ value of its

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-60159183071153102612007-01-11T09:45:00.001+01:002007-01-11T09:45:34.391+01:00

Thanks to Helge Städtler from the University of Bremen (Germany), I was directed to an interesting European project, carried out from Norway by NKI Distance Education.This project is called "Megatrends in E-Learning Provision". In one of their workpackages, that recently got finished, they have delivered some interesting case descriptions (based on interviews) of virtual universities and the like

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1166691838061025942006-12-21T09:53:00.000+01:002006-12-21T10:13:30.756+01:00

Yes, it was really quiet on this weblog. I have been very, very busy with some other stuff. Especially the latest Sakai conference kept me real busy. I wrote about 10 posts on this conference on the group weblog of the Sakai community in The Netherlands. And then I wrote a short report on this conference, which (ofcourse) is available (but is written in Dutch) online.What else?I tried out the

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1166021821366928342006-12-13T15:56:00.000+01:002006-12-13T15:57:01.373+01:00

Ben Werdmuller, one of the 'inventors' of Elgg, is a bit sad: "Alas, Elgg was unsuccessful in its bid to the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Awards for Technology Collaboration, which awarded $650,000 in prizes on Monday. I've got to confess that I'm a little disappointed(..)". I would also have thought that Elgg really should deserve some prize money, but on the other hand to be awarded such a price,

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1165150843991125142006-12-03T14:00:00.000+01:002006-12-03T14:08:39.746+01:00

Next week I will be attending the 6th Sakai conference, held in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). For coverage of this conference, you can go to our group weblog at http://sakai-nl.blogspot.com.This weblog will remain untouched until Dececember 11, 2006.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1164960905986046532006-12-01T09:15:00.000+01:002006-12-01T09:15:06.346+01:00

This message is also posted on our weblog "Dutch Sakai News & Opinions".Just before the next Sakai conference will take place in Atlanta, there is an official press release on sakaiproject.org: 'November 30, 2006 - The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has formally asked the Patent Office to reexamine and ultimately cancel all 44 claims of Blackboard's patent on

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1164903422407637482006-11-30T17:17:00.000+01:002006-11-30T17:17:06.276+01:00

English: our largest telecomprovider (KPN) will offer free internet for schools in primary and secondary education. But they are offering free 'learning content' as well (wrapped in a proprietary VLE as far as I can see). This news comes only a few days after the news (press release in Dutch only) that our Open University will offer free courses. I like the OU idea much better!In Dutch: School

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1164882064782725742006-11-30T11:21:00.000+01:002006-11-30T11:21:04.853+01:00

OSS Watch - open source software advisory service: "OSS Watch promotes awareness and understanding of the legal, social, technical and economic issues that arise when educational institutions engage with free and open source software." There is so much valuable information to be found on this website. Unfortunately it is mainly geared to the UK public (as could be expected, being JISC funded) and

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1164222895157663452006-11-22T20:07:00.000+01:002006-11-22T20:50:43.176+01:00

{this might be a little provocative, you have been warned} In the last couple of days I have heard the word "Sharepoint" too much. Really! It seems that Sharepoint is a real alternative for Sakai. That is the message I am hearing repeatedly. And today I received information that Sharepoint might be good for content management.Let me say a few things:1. Sure, Sharepoint has some great tools for

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163694273080564152006-11-16T16:53:00.000+01:002006-11-16T17:24:33.240+01:00

Iedereen die wil weten wat ik verder nog besproken heb in de wandelgangen met betrekking tot Sakai, verwijs ik naar het Sakai NL weblog. Daar vind je overigens ook onze/mijn online agenda.De volgende face-to-face bijeenkomst van de Sakai NL community is op 22 november, Utrecht (SURF), 10.30 uur. Iedereen is van harte welkom! Voor lunch wordt gezorgd. Een berichtje dat je wilt komen, wordt wel op

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163664404191541172006-11-16T08:59:00.000+01:002006-11-16T09:06:44.190+01:00

Verschillende collega's hebben gefotografeerd: Pierre Gorissen, Gerard Dümmer, Keith Russell, Willem Karssenberg en ondergetekende in ieder geval. Kijk op http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/owd2006/.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163663948818385692006-11-16T08:53:00.000+01:002006-11-16T08:59:08.840+01:00

Zowel Wilfred Rubens als Willem van Valkenburg hebben al uitgebreid verslag gedaan van de keynote van Diana Oblinger. Ik laat het bij mijn eigen observaties. De oproep van Oblinger ("consider the options") was zeer helder! Ik zou het willen samenvatten met: overweeg de huidige praktijk en vooral ook je impliciete aannames daarin.Heel concreet bracht Oblinger vervolgens een aantal suggesties,

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163618540108152092006-11-15T20:20:00.000+01:002006-11-15T20:22:20.123+01:00

Gisteravond heb ik mijn laptoptas even alleen gelaten op de beursvloer. Dat had ik niet moeten doen!Hij is eventjes door iemand anders (een collega in geldnood?) meegenomen, doorzocht en daarna in het toilet achter gelaten. Een vriendelijke collega bracht de tas vanuit het toilet bij mij terug. Met veel verontschuldigingen, dat hij in mijn tas had geneusd. Hij had daarbij in mijn portemonnee

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163517851003970852006-11-14T16:16:00.000+01:002006-11-14T16:24:11.010+01:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } CIMG4154, originally uploaded by wytze. Thea Derks hield een mooi afgewogen verhaal over hun ervaringen met Dokeos, een opensource leeromgeving. Hun merknaam voor de totale leeromgeving (ook portfolio hoort

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163495580415468812006-11-14T10:02:00.000+01:002006-11-14T10:15:43.286+01:00

Mijn programma voor vandaag en morgen (waarschijnlijk):Dinsdag 14 november:14:45-15:30 uurmyEUR, gaat vast over een portal voor studenten... misschienActieve student #1 (m.n. webklasssen) ; Bart van de Laar; misschienen deze wordt het: De e-leeromgeving PointCarré van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel door Thea Derks16:30-17:15 uurEuropean Higher Education in 2020 (Hans Vossensteijn)17:30-18:15

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163352669736435952006-11-12T18:21:00.000+01:002006-11-12T18:31:09.750+01:00

De afgelopen dagen ben ik op zoek geweest naar actueel nieuws over de acties die in het openbaar vervoer zouden gaan plaatsvinden op 15 november aanstaande. Het lijkt me voor veel mensen die de SURF Onderwijsdagen bezoeken toch wel belangrijk om op de hoogte te blijven.Ik heb eerder al gezocht op nieuws-sites, maar kon niets concreets vinden. Zou het dan niet doorgaan, dacht ik nog?Uiteindelijk

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163174530376249352006-11-10T16:55:00.000+01:002006-11-10T17:08:02.996+01:00

Eja Kliphuis mailde mij (en anderen) met wat reclame voor een leuke sessie op dinsdag 14 november, 14.45 uur. Ik maak hierbij nog een beetje meer reclame voor deze sessie (helaas zie ik geen mogelijkheid om te deeplinken naar de aankondiging; nog een klein gemis op de website...) De titel van de sessie is "Wiki- en bloggebruik tijdens conferenties!". Er zullen enkele stellingen worden besproken.

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Tijdens het samenstellen van mijn programma voor de SURF Onderwijsdagen zag ik een intrigererende pre-conference, namelijk "Digitaal Portfolio onder druk" onder leiding van de 'portfolio-guru' van Nederland, Marij Veugelers (UvA).Marij heeft vele interessante sprekers in haar pre-conference. Lees maar eens de quote uit de beschrijving: "Er zal ingegaan worden op 3 invalshoeken:- Het implementeren

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1163060085569767012006-11-09T09:05:00.000+01:002006-11-09T09:31:22.973+01:00

Op de website http://www.surf.nl/owd2006 kun je je eigen programma samenstellen voor de SURF Onderwijsdagen en vervolgens afdrukken. Dat is zeker een aanrader voor diegenen die goed beslagen ten ijs willen komen. Doen dus!Ik heb er gisteren eens mee ge-experimenteerd en er zijn wel enkele kanttekeningen te maken:1) het genereren van het programma werkt niet in Firefox (bij mij op versie 1.5),2)

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Derek Wenmoth, from New Zealand, has a great post on MLE's (Managed Learning Environment) and PLE's (Personal Learning Environment). MLE's should still be made available by the institution, he argues: "(..) I think a school's priority should be on the development of a MLE, and the components within it. As long as what they do conforms to open standards, and the principles of a services oriented

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[We will be right back, after the commercial break! What follows is a broadcast in Dutch.]Even een kort reclame-intermezzo. Gerard Dümmer schrijft het volgende: "Beste Edubloggers, Op dinsdag en woensdag 14 en 15 november 2006 zijn weer de onderwijsdagen (OWD) van SURF. Dit jaar heeft SURF besloten om een OWD-weblog bij te laten houden op een speciaal daarvoor ingerichte weblog. Ik mag die weblog

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1162038426639687522006-10-29T13:36:00.000+01:002006-10-30T09:04:56.536+01:00

Inside Higher Education recently published (on their website), the complete text of the letter of the Educause board that was sent to Blackboard on October 9, 2006. A quote from the letter: "One of our concerns is that you may not fully appreciate the depth of the consternation this action has caused for key members of our community." Quite right, I think.Also read the comments that have been

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1161950014022263502006-10-27T13:40:00.000+02:002006-10-27T13:53:34.046+02:00

In the last couple of days I came across some really nice developments that are worth getting some more publicity.The first one the UK's Open University that has launched OpenLearn, their effort to offer free, high-quality online content. This all seems to be handled by the Moodle platform.As far as I can see, most of the content here is rather boring. I have tried a few 'courses' and they all

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1160984977018602102006-10-16T09:49:00.000+02:002006-10-16T09:52:43.976+02:00

Just a slight diversion here, but a very interesting one I think. Our department of Computer Science has a short history. 25 Years ago we welcomed our first students for an "Informatica" degree course at Twente University (Technische Hogeschool Twente or THT, as it was called then).But before this official start 25 years ago, the THT already bought their first computer. In 1964 IBM sent out a

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1160553336725152812006-10-11T09:55:00.000+02:002006-10-11T09:55:36.806+02:00

Just a quick post in Dutch. A large group of Dutch elearning professesionals is present at the annual Educause conference in Dallas. They have a blogger (Gerard Dümmer) that very actively posts about the conference in the Edutrip 2006 weblog: "Behalve deze blog wordt door de deelnemers ook een wiki bijgehouden. De wiki is nu vol op in ontwikkeling. Door verschillende mensen worden artikelen

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1158920343133773032006-09-22T12:19:00.000+02:002006-09-22T12:19:03.200+02:00

There are TENs of people involved in the EU-funded TENcompetence project that will run until December 2009. Through the very own weblog of Scott Wilson I was pointed to the DSpace repository that was set up for this project. Scott has recently submitted a very nice and readable paper titled "Personal Learning Environments: Challenging thedominant design of educational systems". Highly recommended

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1158741971881019702006-09-20T10:46:00.000+02:002006-09-20T11:15:17.173+02:00

This will be a post in Dutch. I visited a seminar of the Dutch Digital University yesterday.Gisteren bezocht ik het seminar 'Haal meer uit de DU' op 19 september 2006 in Amersfoort. Ik mocht, samen, met Frank Benneker en Eric Kluijfhout, een presentatie doen over ons project "ELO Groei- en Verandermanagement" en bezocht twee andere workshops. Onze eigen workshop was te veel éénrichtingsverkeer.

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Ok, vacation is over. Let's get back to work!Besides Stephen Downes, there are more interesting weblogs that I would encourage anyone to read also. One of them is Michael Feldstein's. Yesterday he gave a very interesting twist to the whole Blackboard patent discussion. Check e-Literate: Patents and IMS Common Cartridge: "I’m afraid that recent history with technology patents shows that it is not

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1155494191969893652006-08-13T20:35:00.000+02:002006-08-13T20:36:31.970+02:00

I am off! See you in two weeks, August 29, 2006.

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Joseph Hart at Eastern Oregon University has expressed an interesting view on the whole Blackboard patent stuff: "My own belief is that Blackboard does perceive a serious threat from the now highly developed open source learning management systems that will become even more available to both small institutions and large institutions. Blackboard abandoned their base of small institutions to go

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1154599695836660722006-08-03T12:04:00.000+02:002006-08-04T16:56:27.006+02:00

The Surf Foundation is organizing a great conference (what else should I say when I am one of the organizers?).The conference, in het Nederlands overigens, gaat "Over de grenzen van de ELO". Hoe actueel kun je zijn nu Blackboard een patent krijgt waar iedereen de naschok nog van voelt!Dus meld je aan op de website van SURF (het is gratis!).Sprekers zijn onder andere: Charles Severance (Executive

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1154599401400192002006-08-02T22:03:00.000+02:002006-08-04T16:57:33.013+02:00

There is a great comic about social software and the Blackboard patent: Small Pieces - Gnomz.com: "Small Pieces" by dnorman.Is this dnorman the guy of this weblog?BTW: this gnomz.com is a free service where you can create your own comic. Great stuff!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1154530462067407292006-08-02T16:54:00.000+02:002006-08-02T16:54:29.743+02:00

Michael Feldstein has a keen eye on developments in the elearning stratosphere. Last week he wrote (in Blackboard Patents the LMS): "I’m surprised there hasn’t been more uproar about this yet. The ever-brilliant US Patent and Trademark Office has apparently granted Blackboard a patent for...well...pretty much anything remotely related to learning management systems."It seems to me that we should

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1154423853145067512006-08-01T11:17:00.000+02:002006-08-01T11:18:01.363+02:00

Wilfred Rubens TE-learning centrum: technology enhanced learning: OpenAcadamic: "OpenAcademic is een op het eerste oog boeiend initiatief van de ontwikkelaars van Elgg, Moodle, Drupal en MediaWiki."Seems like a real nice initiative where the best of four worlds (Elgg, Moodle, Drupal and MediaWiki) are merged together and are given back to the community at large. They are also working with the

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1152526554875062682006-07-10T12:15:00.000+02:002006-07-10T12:15:54.906+02:00

I haven't read it yet, but this report from Australia already had quite some buzz around the elearning bloggers. So, it better be good. One of the authors, Lisa Wise, writes in her weblog about the LMS Governance Final Report: "The major conclusion from our research was that enterprise LMS software is primarily an administrative tool for delivery of subject-based content and for communication

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1150910802770450502006-06-21T19:20:00.000+02:002006-06-29T15:06:47.713+02:00

Yesterday I was the organizer of a seminar on Service-Oriented Architecture and (their possible role and use for) education. This seminar was organized as part of the project "ELO Groei- en Verandermanagement", that started about 18 months ago and was funded by the Digital University. If you would like to read more on this subject, you are welcome to read and browse through the presentations of

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1150661570663049872006-06-18T22:09:00.000+02:002006-06-29T15:04:33.140+02:00

Dr. Petra Boezerooy, originally uploaded by PiAir.Just a quick note here: Pierre made this photo while Petra defended her dissertation, that I wrote about earlier. Actually Petra did a very good job I think: doing very thorough research while working fulltime and that only in a three years timeframe. Congrulations Petra!Update: the fulltext of the dissertation is available.

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Reading through your Bloglines, there is always something interesting. Today this post by Wilred Rubens caught my eye (and made me think): 25 nieuwe manieren om RSS te gebruiken: "25 New Ways To Use RSS beschrijft -de naam zegt het al- vijfentwintig manieren om RSS toe te passen. Opvallend: er staan geen toepassingen voor het onderwijs tussen, zoals op de hoogte blijven van veranderingen in een

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1150358326376638892006-06-15T09:58:00.000+02:002006-06-15T09:58:49.560+02:00

Do you read ScienceGuide? I think you should. It is a very interesting website, with lots of articles and opinions, mainly from people in higher management levels in Higher Education in The Netherlands. So, this site gives you a great insight in what our board members and management are thinking and talking about and what is going on in Den Haag. The site is completely in Dutch.Today I read an

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1149693683695295722006-06-07T17:16:00.000+02:002006-06-07T17:21:23.710+02:00

Just a quick note here. Next week, on June 15, Petra Boezerooij will defend her dissertation, titled "E-learning Strategies of Higher Education Institutions" (exact timing and location).I am very curious to what her conclusions are. If you are too, then you might be interested in attending too. So far, I cannot find the dissertation online. It'll be nice to see when (and if?) it will become

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1148960983876259972006-05-30T05:47:00.000+02:002006-05-30T05:49:43.896+02:00

This week I am out of the office. I am visiting the 5th Sakai Conference. This conference is held in Vancouver. I just arrived at my hotel in downtown Vancouver after a flight of almost ten hours.Newsitems and reports out of Vancouver will be published (not only by me, but also by some other collegues) on the Sakai NL weblog.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1147961572284927272006-05-18T15:59:00.000+02:002006-05-18T16:23:06.656+02:00

HEMA ("HEMA is an international retail organization with over 290 stores in the Netherlands, more than 40 stores in Belgium and 3 in Germany") has started to offer online learning modules, that you can buy, well 'lease' actually (one year access, courses starting from as low as € 15).Have you seen it? I've clicked through some or their 'proeflessen'. This is really crappy: pageturning all the way

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1147778450286607012006-05-16T13:18:00.000+02:002006-05-16T13:32:40.100+02:00

First of all: I have reached a milestone with this weblog. This post is the 101th post in this weblog. I've reached this milestone withing 12 months (should I be proud). What follows is a plug in Dutch for a seminar that we are organizing on June 20th.Op 20 juni organiseren we vanuit de projectgroep "ELO Groei- en Verandermanagement" (waarin Open Universiteit Nederland, Universiteit Twente,

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1147357066645740362006-05-11T16:17:00.000+02:002006-05-11T16:17:46.660+02:00

This is a must-read for everyone interested in the e-Framework initiative as well as other recent developments in the elearning arena. the e-Framework for Education and Research - JISC-CETIS Conference 2005: "The JISC / CETIS Conference is an invitation-only conference to be held in Edinburgh on 15th-16th November, which will bring together a group of invited experts in IT infrastructure in

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1147161842000138972006-05-09T09:53:00.000+02:002006-05-09T10:04:02.013+02:00

A few days ago I was asked to draft a cost calculation for a good old Computer Based Training program that should be produced for CD-ROM.The CD-ROM to be produced is meant for our team of the University of Twente that competes in the last round of the Battle of the Universities. Our team is planning on producing a complete learning package meant for 12-16 year old students in secondary education

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1146312673803055082006-04-29T14:11:00.000+02:002006-04-29T14:11:13.810+02:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } CIMG0374, originally uploaded by wytze. Day 2 started off with a good breakfast, after a short night's sleep. And then on to the conference room!Most interesting of this second day, at least for me, was the

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1146184623075986232006-04-28T01:31:00.000+02:002006-04-29T13:45:18.976+02:00

So, today (well, technically I should say "yesterday") I am at the SURF-JISC staff exchange workshop held in a nice hotel over here in Naarden. I am just using the wireless internet provided by Swisscom, which works quite OK, even in my room.Anyway: Wijnandaalderink has already put up some first impressions on this first day up on his weblog. These are my first impressions (in reverse order):1.

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The website http://elearning.surf.nl is a great source of news on the state of play regarding elearning in Higher Education (HE) in the Netherlands. This site is essentially a monthly magazine in Dutch, with a large archive.A current feature is a summary of a report by SURFnet on the use of open source in The Netherlands, which is rather disappointing. Read E-Learning: Het gebruik van open

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1144666877752169872006-04-10T13:01:00.000+02:002006-04-10T13:06:01.430+02:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Brian, Wytze, Sandra and Nico,originally uploaded by Frank Kresin. So, back to work then... Hard to do, because this morning there was a very disruptive message.Anyway: Scott Wilson has put his presentation

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1144394442969383732006-04-07T09:20:00.000+02:002006-04-07T09:20:43.016+02:00

Yesterday I visited the ALT Spring Conference 2006, titled "New connections, new challenges". This conference was organized by the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) from the UK, in assocation with SURF. The conference was held at Leiden University, in the beautiful Kamerlingh Onnes gebouw.The Thursday morning was filled with an opening keynote that I missed, so I can't really comment on

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1143731871339271992006-03-30T17:17:00.000+02:002006-03-30T17:17:51.396+02:00

I have found some real recommended reading, while I was checking out the wiki that MIT has set up on their migration efforts from Stellar 1.7 to Stellar 2 (which will be Sakai under the hood!). This wiki is worth reading....But what I found while browsing, was a reference to SUNY. And that is really really worth reading!!Back in October 2005 the State University of New York (SUNY) put out a

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1143555902684728752006-03-28T16:25:00.000+02:002006-03-28T16:25:02.733+02:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } CIMG9668, originally uploaded by wytze. This was one of the posters that was made in our workshop regarding the VLE (or LMS) of the future. We had a very packed session (40 participants!), which was very

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1142934788630464762006-03-21T10:53:00.000+01:002006-03-21T10:53:08.686+01:00

Scott Leslie, from Canada, operates a nice weblog. I've been reading his weblog for quite some time now. His recent post concerns a Collaborative Moodle Pilot in British Columbia: "As the original home of WebCT, it is not perhaps a big surprise that it is the most widely adopted CMS in the province of BC, where I live and work. And while that doesn't look set to change anytime soon on a large

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1142413461163266702006-03-15T10:04:00.000+01:002006-03-15T10:13:13.243+01:00

The Open University in the UK announced to make a selection of its learning materials available free of charge to educators and learners around the world. They are supported by a multimillion dollar grant of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation the University. Indeed, this is really good news. Check the full press release on the Open Content Initiative.This sort of reminds me of the farewell

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1142337611728859322006-03-14T13:00:00.000+01:002006-03-14T13:00:11.786+01:00

Stephen Downes has taken a break. Read all about it in the Hiatus FAQ: "Yes, there was an event that triggered it, internal to our organization, which I don't really think I should discuss. But this has been building up for a while, and is a combination of factors."I hope he will back real soon, to keep us awake and this fast-moving world that is called Elearning!

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1141998039547550322006-03-10T14:40:00.000+01:002006-03-10T14:40:39.636+01:00

SAKAI voorlichtingsbijeenkomst: "SAKAI biedt de mogelijkheid aan instellingen over de gehele wereld bij te dragen aan het SAKAI-initiatief. SURF is in het programma vertegenwoordigd middels de UvA. De UvA evalueert ook de SAKAI-producten. Wij hebben vernomen dat ook andere instellingen overwegen of hebben besloten zelf te gaan experimenteren met SAKAI. Graag nodigen wij instellingen uit om op 19

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1141981149585699662006-03-10T09:59:00.000+01:002006-03-10T09:59:09.643+01:00

I 've been following a discussion on the weblog by Michael Feldstein for some time now. It's really great, there are a lot of very interesting comments there for those interested in subjects like the e-Framework and Sakai.... and Web 2.0 etc.Clicking through these links i found a few new acronyms, such as LMOS and JELF.... Read the following and you will see that Bernie Durfee has something

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1141672837472662692006-03-06T20:20:00.000+01:002006-03-06T20:20:38.200+01:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } DSC02951, originally uploaded by wytze. Today i was in rainy and windy Eindhoven (as you can see on the picture) for a meeting of a project of the Digitale Universiteit This means that I am back. Posting

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1140006880740490172006-02-15T13:34:00.000+01:002006-02-15T13:34:40.793+01:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; }.flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Preparing for Sri Lanka, originally uploaded by wytze. I just tried out www.pageflakes.com. I've put up a little screendump on Flickr.I really like Pageflakes a lot. It has multiple tabs, which most of the

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1139228119348190902006-02-06T14:13:00.000+01:002006-02-06T13:15:19.506+01:00

The preliminary version of the SURF-Meerjarenplan 2007/10 is the focus of this entry. This entry will mostly be in Dutch, since the plan reviewed is in Dutch and is mostly meant for the Dutch 'market'. I am moderately happy with the document, let me say that upfront. I especially have tried to understand the financial statements that are in the document, which are not really informative in my

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1138887487931493972006-02-02T14:38:00.000+01:002006-02-02T14:38:07.973+01:00

The Changing Face of Education: "One of my students contacted me using an instant messaging application last night asking to have his password for our Moodle environment so he could do some Physics homework." I suggest you read the whole item on the weblog by Jason Plunkett from Australia. Great read! He has been added to my Bloglines.

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1138723495867860822006-01-31T17:03:00.000+01:002006-01-31T17:04:55.893+01:00

I just want to quote Dion Hinchcliffe (great weblog!) More Great Web 2.0 Software (web2.wsj2.com): "(..) I find the arguments that most folks have against Web 2.0 to be very similar to the ones that people have made against a similar software concept, Service-Oriented Architecture. As I pointed out recently, Gartner thinks SOA will underpin 80% of all software development by the year 2008."I

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1138361312363318672006-01-27T12:17:00.000+01:002006-01-31T14:20:20.926+01:00

Would you allow me to do a little self-exposure and a little promotion for some great things happening over here in The Netherlands?I would like to point my Dutch readers to two great items that are in the Dutch language only:1. All the great work that we did under the title "ELO Advies" can be found online. Just point your browser to http://www.utwente.nl/elo. If you are interested in a sort of

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1138005082097203772006-01-23T09:31:00.000+01:002006-01-23T09:31:22.170+01:00

Hm, this can become quite interesting, I think. Through the e-Literate weblog, Michael Feldstein points us to a proposed open standard to evaluate opensource software.They have done some 'testing' with Sakai and Moodle. In their own words, a Business Readiness Rating™: "Today, companies evaluate open source suitability based on homegrown assessment methods without access to useful assessment data

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1137416185355807932006-01-16T13:49:00.000+01:002006-01-16T13:56:25.373+01:00

Just a random thought, that came up while I was thinking about my online banking habits. I use mijn.postbank.nl, and yesterday I read on this site that transactions will not be processed during weekends.Come to think about it: why should our VLE (in our case TeleTOP) be available 24/7 and process transactions 24/7? Well, i can think of a reason. That is: this world is spinning around like hell,

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1137403813640740492006-01-16T10:30:00.000+01:002006-01-16T10:32:05.066+01:00

Through Stephen Downes I was directed to this great post by Michael Feldstein on his e-Literate weblog.The title of his entry is Blackboard by the Numbers and he refers toJim Farmer: "According to Jim’s numbers, Blackboard needs to acquire 185 new customers every year to hold steady, 371 to get 5% growth, and so on, up to 742 new customers needed to grow at 15%. How many new customers a year has

Wytze Koopalnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10340951.post-1136885975502592422006-01-10T10:39:00.000+01:002006-01-10T10:39:35.550+01:00

Ok, i get it!This message is coming back day after day, just even when the New Year has just started: Learning Objects have never worked and will never work. As David Wiley states: Iterating toward openness » RIP-ping on Learning Objects "So if learning objects are dead - and they may be - what is it that we should care about?"Just read the whole post by David and comments. It's a great read.

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