User:JimTittsler/Blog/2014

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Theming
Over the years we have developed a variety of techniques for theming content authored in WikiEducator. I've posted a longer blog post summarizing some of the possible methods.

These are important considerations because they separate the authoring and presentation. Some of the schemes further separate the learning pathway through a collection of resources from the resources themselves, encouraging potential reuse. --JimTittsler 04:54, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Hosting
This year we have made two upgrades to the WikiEducator server infrastructure. In March, we moved the main instance to a faster server at Amazon Web Services. And now in April we have moved the main database server to an SSD-backed system, further increasing the responsiveness of our server. --JimTittsler 04:00, 28 April 2014 (UTC)

OERu.org
The official name (OERuniversitas) of the OERu initiative didn't make for a very memorable URL, so we were able to obtain the shorter OERu.org. --JimTittsler 00:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Migrating from Moodle
Since the WikiEducator and OERu courses are currently being delivered directly from WikiEducator, we have disabled the WikiEducator Moodle instance. The content is archived should it ever be useful. --JimTittsler 00:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

Piwik Analytics
For the OERuniversitas web site we are using the Open Source Piwik web analytics platform. Data is openly shared with partner institutions. --JimTittsler 00:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)