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January 2004
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List of open/free 'courseware tools' from UNESCO Free Software Portal
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_freesoft/ Software/Courseware_Tools/ Via an email from Jim Sibley came mention of this list of open or free ‘courseware tools’ – there were a couple of ones new to me (MANIAC and OLAT being examples). But the reference was as useful also for introducing me to the UNESCO Free Software Portal which collects together a large [...]
Stanford's continuing costs to support CourseWork
http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content &id=12840&repository=0001_article Via Ray Schroeder comes this article from Stanford outlining the possible future of the CourseWork project and stating a possible $730K a year price tag to keep it going. This seems unlikely, but probably shouldn’t be discounted out of hand. – SWL
Government searches for national e-learning agenda
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61& lid=1&sid=54598&adBanner=eGovernment Article from ITBusiness.ca that seems to accurately capture the current state of affairs at the National level in Canada when it comes to funding elearning initiatives, likely no surprise to attendees of the CANARIE/Industry Canada meetings a few weeks back in Vancouver as summarized by Paul Stacey’s recent article. – SWL
Academic ADL Co-Lab's Database of Repositories
http://projects.aadlcolab.org/repository-directory/ New from the Academic ADL Co-Lab is this searchable database of existing learning object repositories. Most of these are not software you could download to run your ‘own’ repository but instead existing institutional or subject-based repositories in which you *might* be able to participate (which raises the entirely sticky issue of ‘how many repositories [...]
New page for 'RSS feeds from learning object repositories'
I just noticed today that people still refer to the old page I built illustrating RSS feeds from known Repositories. That page was built on my old Radio site using a simple Radio macro that rendered RSS as HTML. Since then I’ve moved the site into MoveableType and onto another host, but I have only [...]
'Institutional Digital Repositories' and 'Learning Object Repositories' – What's the Difference?
The title of this post is a question, and I’m actually interested to hear a few different things from people out there: not only what you think the difference between ‘digital repository’ software (e.g. DSpace) and ‘learning object repository’ software (e.g. CAREO) actually is, but also are any differences you think exist there because these [...]
Medical Rounds – Multimedia Grand Rounds
http://www.medicalrounds.com/ This site, in part the work of the Lion’s Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, presents a large collection of talks on a variety of medical topics in the form of quicktime audio streams and slide shows. One could argue for a variety of reasons that these aren’t ‘proper’ learning objects, but it seemed a [...]
Raymond Yee's notes from Canadian Elearning Workshop 2004
http://raymondyee.net/wiki/ CanadianElearningWorkshop2004 Well, I can’t be there myself, but reading Raymond’s notes in his wiki is the next best thing. He is involved in the hugely intriguing Scholars Box project, part of the Interactive Univeristy Project at UC Berkeley, and brings his own great context to these notes. Thanks for sharing these, Raymond! – SWL
Webcast by University of California of discussion on SAKAI
http://ets.berkeley.edu/etstandards/sakai/ Similar to the last webcast they provided back in December concerning Lionshare, the University of California system (and specifically UC Berkeley, who seem to be hosting the event) are providing a webcast stream of a presentation by Joseph Hardin, the Director of the Collaborative Technologies Lab Media Union at the University of Michigan Ann [...]
Chickenpox!
You may have noticed that EdTechPost has been a bit quiet of late. Apart from the regular seasonal break (which should have been over by now) I just found out on the weekend that I have chickenpox! Somehow I managed not to get it as a kid (thanks Mom!) so I have the pleasure of [...]
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