I took part in a very interesting meeting here at Mason the other day. After many years of a pretty hands-off approach to distance or at least distributed education, it seems we have decided to move into this market in a more coordinated way. By “more coordinated” I mean that rather than reactively supporting to…
Tag: open source
Omeka Wins MATC Award
On Monday of this week Omeka, the open source platform we’ve created here at CHNM, won a $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. Omeka was one of ten winners this year. As nice as it was to receive the money, which will help fuel Omeka’s further development, it was just as nice to have our…
Back to School at Digital Campus
Digital Campus has gone back to school at last. Episode 31 of our podcast is now up and available for your listening enjoyment. Among the topics Dan, Tom, and I discussed in this episode are the launch of Google’s Chrome browser and what this might mean for higher education and, most importantly, what trends in…
Historical Code Monkeys
For years historians engaged in digital work have used the “I can’t really write much code” excuse as a way to avoid everything from learning simple tools like CSS to more complex ones like MySQL and PHP. Alas for me and everyone else who has used the “me no code” excuse, we’ll have to find…