I’ve recently been trying to catch up on my community source blog reading. I just stumbled across a posting from our own Mara Hancock, who wrote a very interesting and in-depth entry on Penn State’s Terra Incognita about the user experience of open source software in higher education.
Mara’s article touches on the challenges and potential [...]

Last week, Fluid Project board member Jens Haeusser, from the University of British Columbia, came to Toronto to meet with the ATRC team. Prior to his current position as Director of Strategy in the Information Technology department at UBC, Jens was UBC’s Information Security Officer.
Jens provided us with an update on UBC’s plans for the [...]

For the past couple of months we’ve been planning a comprehensive set of what we’re calling “UX Walk-throughs“—a combination of heuristic evaluations and cognitive walk-throughs—of Moodle, Sakai, and uPortal. The goal of these walk-throughs is to identify areas of the user interface that are most in need of improvement, allowing us to prioritize our design [...]