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April 2003
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Zope and IMS Content Packages
Quote: “ContentPackage provides ZOPE with the ability to import IMS Content Packages and turn them into Zope objects (see http://www.imsglobal.org).” Well this bodes well for the future. Has anyone heard from the eduzope folks lately – for a while it seemed like it was going to be vapourware, and then I checked back in a [...]
Building the Infrastructure for Sustainable Educational Transformation (what is OKI and OCW)
George Lorenzo at Educational Pathways has a nice write up on OKI and OCW – in fact that’s how I found the piece, via a reference at the end of Rob Reynold’s piece on open source CMSes to ‘OKI and OCW Defined.’ But what I want to know is why OKI have never posted an equally [...]
Open Source Courseware — Evaluation and Rating
Rob Reynolds over at Xplana has posted this useful piece that helps frame some of the issues an institution should factor in when considering looking at an open source solution to course management systems, proposes a rating scheme based on these factors and rates many of the currently available options. While I might differ on a few [...]
What is Reversible?
This is one of those “I’m-not-totally-sure-what-this-is-but-it-seems-like-it-might-be-interesting/important” posts. Creating a link to this site, say like this one, actually creates a new page on that site, much like how using a WikiWord works within a wiki (eg unlike regular web pages, where you need to create the thing to be linked to before you can link [...]
The CAPTCHA Project.
“A CAPTCHA is a program that can generate and grade tests that: Most humans can pass. Current computer programs can’t pass. “ You’ve seen this before – think of systems you’ve used that ask you to access a web page and read text off that page that was somehow obscured, then feed it back to [...]
MetaMap – Graphical Map of Metadata and other Standards Initiatives
“The MetaMap is a pedagogical graphic which takes the form of a subway map. Its aim is to help the information science community to understand metadata standards, sets, and initiatives of interest in this area.“ Now this is extremely cool and helpful - this map shows both what issues particular standards and initiatives try to address [...]
JIME Special Issue – Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to eLearning
The latest issue of the U.K. publication The Journal of Interactive Media in Education is structured around expert commentary on the recent book, edited by JIME editor Alison Littlejohn, Reusing Online Resources: A Sustainable Approach to eLearning, (Ed.) Allison Littlejohn. Kogan Page, London. ISBN 0749439491. Such elearning and learning object luminaries as Tom Carey, Ed [...]
Cooktop: The free XML/XSL editor for Windows
If you are a Windows user and at all involved with working with XML or XSLT, then you probably already know about this tool, but if not, I highly recommend checking it out. Before I came across this editor I played around with both XMLSpy and eXcelon’s Stylus Studio, two of the seemingly more prominent [...]
The Tip Jar as Revenue Model
This post to kuro5hin.org by the original author of a story that was distributed for free via kuro5hin but had a ‘tip jar’ attached that let readers donate if they felt so inclined has some interesting anecdotal observations on distributing free content online versus going through traditional publishing mechanisms. He eneded up making $760 in tips (US!) [...]
Peer-to-Peer and the Promise of Internet Equality – Phil Agre
Long before there were blogs, Phil Agre was publishing a great read-only mailing list called Red Rock NewsEater which regularly commented on a mix of technological and social issues and was an outlet for new drafts of Agre’s papers. Agre is a fascinating character – he has a PhD in artificial intelligence studies from MIT, but seems [...]
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