Category: ‘Omnium Software’

Omnium Software 4.0.0 Released

The new version of Omnium Software has been released. As you may have noticed, the latest version number lacks its usual suffix of characters and numbers. This can only mean one thing: we’re finally out of Beta!

After a grueling year of intense coding and testing, the technical team at Omnium are proud to announce version […]

Go PHP 5

Today Omnium Open joined the Go PHP 5 initiative. In fact Omnium Software has required PHP 5.1.6 for a while now, but we will be happy to push that up to PHP 5.2

The Go PHP 5 initiative hopes to force web hosts to adopt PHP 5.2 by moving a whole bunch of popular tools like […]

Omnium at the Apple WWDC

San Francisco, post WWDC 2006 - Downtown San Francisco lies in ruins after the infamous “Rampage of the Nerds” at WWDC 2006.

Thanks to the generous folks at the Apple University Consortium, who have provided me with a scholarship. I will be off to the Apple WWDC.

I’ll be spending most of my time in the content […]

Most VLEs Are Sausage Factories

There’s a thoughtful article about learning platforms by Martin Owen over at Futurelab’s Flux blog.

In it he discusses the issues that VLE’s are incredibly constraining and set up neo-Fordist practices of education.

At worst the Learning Platform mentality is about tracking, delivery, assessment, recording… it is a production line, sausage machine vision of education. […]

Omnium™ Software goes Open Source

Yesterday, we made available for download the upcoming version of Omnium Software under an open source license.

The code is still in beta, so it’s only has a small set of the functionality that is planned for the final 4.0 release.

For more details you can visit the Omnium Open website.