[GRLUG] Learning System (Blackboard) job opening

[Michael Mol]

*looks around*

*I* wasn't holding a pitchfork.

This torch? Uh...it's for illumination.  Yeah, that's it.

(Seriously...wasn't criticizing.)

On 10/3/06, Szymon Machajewski <SMachaje at grcc.edu> wrote:
> Please hold the torches and pitchforks ...
>
> Grand Rapids Community College is an organization dedicated to
> innovation.
> We've been running BB before the open source solutions were mature.
> Also a final choice of enterprise software is a complex set of
> requirements and strategic goals.
>
> Just today I attended a Sakai conference in Lansing (how appropriate).
> Along there was a GRCC executive, two directors, and an instructional
> professional.
>
> I'm not sure what BB branding is being referred to.  Maybe the BB key
> access transnational system we also own (different than a learning
> system).
>
>
>
> Szymon Machajewski
>
> Solutions Engineer / DBA
> Red Hat Certified Engineer
> Oracle Certified Associate
> Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
> www.grcc.edu/smachaje
>
>
> >>> "Tim Schmidt" <timschmidt at gmail.com> 10/3/2006 4:40:08 pm >>>
> On 10/3/06, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Blackboard has loooong been established as the standard at GRCC, to
> > the point where there's BlackBoard-branded hardware all over the
> > place.  I don't think Moodle is going to see much consideration
> around
> > here.
> >
> > Consider specialized hardware one of Bb's methods of lock-in.  All
> the
> > cardreaders, for example, are Bb-branded.
>
> Yeah.  Exactly.  Coupled with Blackboard Inc.'s recent penchant for
> filing un-winnable lawsuits (http://lwn.net/Articles/197535/), any
> prudent organization making use of Blackboard should at least be
> thinking about alternatives...
>
> I'm realistic.  I don't expect GRCC to deploy Moodle next week.  What
> I'd like to see is someone, somewhere in the school spending 20
> minutes looking at alternatives, or slipping a word or two into job
> offers like this one - not requirements - just 'bonus points if...'
>
> Perhaps all this is going on to some extent and CC's IT / management
> processes just aren't transparent enough to allow us to see that.  I
> don't want to cause a ruckus...  just making observations about an
> institution I feel I have some interest in, having attended.
>
> Syzmon?
>
> --tim
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