Cetis Blogs - expert commentary on educational technology » Scott Wilson http://blogs.cetis.org.uk Specialists in educational technology and standards Tue, 12 May 2015 11:45:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 HtmlCleaner 2.10 released http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/htmlcleaner-2-10-released/ http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/htmlcleaner-2-10-released/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:18:17 +0000 http://scottbw.wordpress.com/?p=361 Get it here!

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]]> http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/htmlcleaner-2-10-released/feed/ 0 Tracking student blogs using Google Spreadsheets and WordPress http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/tracking-student-blogs-using-google-spreadsheets-and-wordpress/ http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/tracking-student-blogs-using-google-spreadsheets-and-wordpress/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:28:18 +0000 http://scottbw.wordpress.com/?p=358 I’m currently teaching a first year module on Open Source Software, one of the requirements for which is students write their findings up as blog posts. For that reason I thought it might be useful to be able to keep … Continue reading →

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]]> http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/10/21/tracking-student-blogs-using-google-spreadsheets-and-wordpress/feed/ 0 HtmlCleaner 2.9 http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/htmlcleaner-2-9/ http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/htmlcleaner-2-9/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:32:51 +0000 http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/htmlcleaner-2-9/ I’ve finally released version 2.9 of HtmlCleaner! This month I also had to answer my first ever official support request for HtmlCleaner in my “day job” – it appears a researcher at the University of Oxford is using it as … Continue reading →

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]]> I’ve finally released version 2.9 of HtmlCleaner!

This month I also had to answer my first ever official support request for HtmlCleaner in my “day job” – it appears a researcher at the University of Oxford is using it as part of a project analysing legislation passed by the State Duma of the Russian Federation :)


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]]> http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/htmlcleaner-2-9/feed/ 0 Looking at Kwan and West’s Open Source Adoption Model http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/looking-at-kwan-and-wests-open-source-adoption-model/ http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/looking-at-kwan-and-wests-open-source-adoption-model/#comments Tue, 27 May 2014 13:39:30 +0000 http://scottbw.wordpress.com/?p=347 In my last post I looked at the first part of Kwan and West’s paper, which concerns the phases of technology adoption. Now I’m turning to the second part, which concerns the adoption model. Kwan and West propose the following … Continue reading →

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]]> In my last post I looked at the first part of Kwan and West’s paper, which concerns the phases of technology adoption. Now I’m turning to the second part, which concerns the adoption model.

Kwan and West propose the following model for open source adoption:

Open Source Adoption - Kwan and West 2005

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]]> http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/looking-at-kwan-and-wests-open-source-adoption-model/feed/ 0 Is there such a thing as “strategic IT” in Higher Education? http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/is-there-such-a-thing-as-strategic-it-in-higher-education/ http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/is-there-such-a-thing-as-strategic-it-in-higher-education/#comments Wed, 21 May 2014 09:42:24 +0000 http://scottbw.wordpress.com/?p=343 In their 2005 paper, A conceptual model for enterprise adoption of open source software [1], Kwan and West use as a starting point the “Strategic Grid” developed originally by McFarlan, McKenney and Pyburn (1983) [2] which divides firms or divisions … Continue reading →

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]]> In their 2005 paper, A conceptual model for enterprise adoption of open source software [1], Kwan and West use as a starting point the “Strategic Grid” developed originally by McFarlan, McKenney and Pyburn (1983) [2] which divides firms or divisions of a company into four categories depending on how valuable IT is to the performance of the division:

  • Strategic
  • Factory
  • Support
  • Turnaround

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