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@umm I’ve used both and I like Courseworks much better than Blackboard. Am I alone?
@DHI Well I mean within a classroom a blackboard is just much better because you don’t have to deal with all that courseworks shit and it’s quick and easy, but I mean courseworks is on that internet so you can use it outside of class. It’s a whole different purpose. You really need both.
@um You’re a fucking idiot.
@Ranger Rick I have used both and I am with you. Of course, it might have more to do with Columbia profs knowing how to get better use out of Courseworks than my last school’s profs knew how to get out of Blackboard, but maybe not.
@MPA 2007 We saw this at our MPA ESP orientation in May. The career dev folks had the page projected and one incoming student raised a hand and said, “Sooo, are those the sorts of jobs we’ll be eligble for?”
@you are all elitist bastards
@Prometheus Fanatic What’s wrong with CourseWorks?
@****twitch, spasm**** nerd attack!
@M.R. In case you’re wondering what the hell’s being referred to…
CourseWorks is a columbia customization of an open source system called Prometheus. Word is Columbia is going to transition to the Sakai system which was started at UMich and Indiana, with MIT and Stanford joining in. http://sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=208
A lot of schools use Blackboard (to serve the same purpose. http://www.blackboard.com/us/index.aspx
@Erf More succinct than a sucked sink.
@spec The current Spec website is not what the final version will look like.
@still Some things should be outsourced. For example, we should be using Blackboard, not fcking CourseWorks.
@but then josh hirschland would have to find something else to write about other than sakai (anyone else notice how every article he writes somehow ends up referencing sakai?)
@college alum I think Courseworks already represents an outsourcing. We used it (and now a Sakai thing that looks and works the same way) for the courses I TAd in grad school at Michigan.
@M.R. https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/cu_about/index.html
@image Columbia really needs to make sure its image doesn’t become watered down with all this outsourcing. Already it seems the Spec website is at risk of looking like that of a cheap, commercialized college newspaper.
@John Summer covereage… beautiful. Good work, people.
@McMmmm Franchising Mickey D’s would make for a posh living.
@i'm sorry you privileged rich kids are too good to work. have fun summering abroad!!
@Mr. Bureaucrat That’s what happens when CCE outsources our future to Monster.com… not that any of us should be surprised.