Archive for April, 2009

IPT 692R Notes: Tuesday, April 9, 2009

Apr 9, 2009 at 12:40 pm, Jared Stein

Ideas for open access and open educational resources at BYU

It was a gorgeously sweet-smelling rainy day, but I managed to bring
myself into the confines of a BYU classroom to attend David
Wiley's IPT 692R: Intro to Open Education. Today we're looking
at how an institution, BYU in particular, might approach institutional
policy and practice supportive of open licensing of teaching materials
and research publications (more…)

Blackboard Vista Triggers Quirks Mode

Apr 2, 2009 at 9:25 am, Jared Stein

Ever been annoyed by Blackboard Vista’s (or Campus Edition 6+’s) rendering of your XHTML + CSS web pages? Yeah, me too–especially on Internet Explorer. This happens because Bb Vista triggers a browser’s quirks mode in spite of DOCTYPEs and validated markup (more…)