Author: Kent Brooks
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Two Rising Stars In Africa: eLearning and the Kuali ERP
In 1997, while still working in Oklahoma, I attended a best practice site visit at the Colorado Community College system. The president of the system opened our visit by saying, “We have had requests from schools in your state to bring in classes….we are coming and there is nothing you can do about it.” I…
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Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid: Open Source is not Three Guys in a Shed Anymore.
Since Wes called me Oklahoma’s “Open Source Yoda turned Wyoming Cowboy”in a recent post and has given me the opportunity to write while he is away I thought I would hit on one of my favorite topics for my final post, Open Source Software (OSS). Please let it be noted that Yoda probably has more…
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What Makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education (v.2)
I have been ask about a post I did awhile back “What Makes an Effective Technology Committee in Education” as much as any I have ever done. Getting the chance write for Wes a little this week seemed a good time to come back to this topic. I have always meant to do a edit…
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Perspective: The Real Challenge Facing IT in Education #fail-learn
Thanks Wes Fryer for letting me write for you while you are out of pocket. My name is Kent Brooks and I write a little on my own I was Just Thinking Site. Although I am a tiny blogging acorn compared to the giant blogging oak Mr Fryer is to all of us, it is…