Jim Farmer’s “Online Learning: Where is the Money?” was published on Michael Feldstein’s e-Literate website. The full article can be read here.
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Online Learning: Where is the Money?
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Datatel-SunGard Higher Education Merger
In the 28th August 2011 e-Literate blog “Datatel-SunGard Higher Education
Merger,” Jim Farmer suggests the merger of Datatel and SunGard will
likely increase prices for software and annual maintenance and updates.
He concludes: “Perhaps the most reasonable advice … would be [to]
register for Kuali Days to see if there is a strategic alternative if
needed.”
The blog can be found at
http://mfeldstein.com/the-datatel-sungard-higher-education-merger/
Sakai: Free as in Freedom. A review.
On August 10, 2011, Jim Farmer published a review of Chuck Severance’s book “Sakai: Free as in Freedom”. Jim is the current treasurer of the Sakai Foundation. The review of the book can be found here.
The future of VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments) in tertiary education
On August 6, 2011, Jim Farmer published a guest blog on Seb Schmoller’s fortnightly mailing. The piece discusses several new products that were announced at Blackboard World 2011. The article can be read here.
Investment Bankers and Blackboard’s Future, Part One
On July 2, 2011, Jim published part one of a piece regarding the propsed purchase of Blackboard, Inc. a publicly traded company, by a group of private investors. The piece can be read here.