Re: [school-discuss] The Sakai Project

[Cameron Miller <cdmiller@adams.edu>]

Dr. Robert G. Rittenhouse wrote:
> Cameron Miller wrote:
>
>
> > Personally I think there are a lot of good light weight portal and 
> > courseware products right now.  The big University folks seem to like 
> > java, java server pages, and high end hardware.  Maybe those make 
> > sense on 20,000 to 40,000 student campuses.
>
> I do believe one of our local universities is running uPortal and 
> they're under 5,000 students.
>
> I'm personally really pleased to see systems such as this -- by schools 
> for schools. This is the way a lot of academic computing worked when I 
> was a grad student way back when. I think we're also beginning to see 
> the same thing with respect to academic publishing.
>
> We're currently using Blackboard -- we're looking at almost $10,000 
> licensing next year. I'm told WebCT pricing is about the same. We're 
> engaged in a project to find an alternative.
Yes these types of projects are a really good thing.

For alternate courseware check out:
http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/index.jsp

They have a bunch of courseware reviewed and compared, proprietary and 
open source.

- cameron