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July 2004
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What are the 'Deficiencies' of Current CMS?
On a pretty regular basis I hear griping from people in the edtech blogging community about how terrible CMS platform X is, or how they are being forced to settle on the functionality provided in CMS platform Y. Rarely, however, do people get specific about what they can’t accomplish in the existing CMS (I’m referring [...]
Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council
http://www.pesc.org/ I was actually pretty pleased about the fact that when a colleague mentioned this group to me, I had never heard of them before. It meant to me that I have created sufficient distance with any ‘administrative computing’ past. The PESC seems to be the domain of registrars and student service (eg. financial aid) [...]
Utah Education Network implementing North Plains asset management system
http://www.northplains.com/media/pr072704.asp I wouldn’t normally carry a news release like this but I have a bit of a personal connection with this story – the folks from UEN were partners in the recent project I did with WCET to research a number of learning object repository software packages, and based on their urging one of those [...]
Alt-i-Lab papers and highlights
http://members.imsglobal.org/forum/ims/ dispatch.cgi/f.altilabtech Lucky for us all, the IMS have posted the supporting papers and slides in a publicly accessible area. Day Two of the sessions I was assigned to the Content working group. The promise of this group had been to tackle some of the questions laid out in the stimulating “Repository Management and Implementation” [...]
Enterprise-wide deployment of Moodle at Dublin City University
Moodle http://odtl.dcu.ie/wp/2004/odtl-2004-01.html Nice paper documenting the rationale and steps to shift from a current enterprise-wide WebCT install to one using Moodle. They looked at three open source alternatives (Boddington, Claroline and Moodle). It is interesting to note what they stated as Moodle’s main current weakness, “the fact that, although there were already many small scale [...]
Sakai Release Candidate 1 released today (anyone got a demo running yet?)
http://www.sakaiproject.org/press/sakai-rc1.html You’ve probably seen this news announced already in a number of places; as promised Sakai Release Candidate 1 was released today. This post is more a query if anyone has got a build up and running that I can have a look at. Pressed for time right now myself, but maybe I’ll get one [...]
Developing a university course for on-line delivery based on learning objects: From ideals to compromises
http://www.athabascau.ca/schoolnetProject04/ documents/LOB_Final_DraftWilhelm-Wilde3.pdf I’ve been searching for this paper without being sure it existed – “Two course developers … investigated and described from their personal points of view the complex and immediate challenges they faced as they designed an online university course based on learning objects.” Somewhat disappointingly, they ultimately “acquired a ‘ready-made’ commercial website featuring [...]
Public Project page for BCcampus LOR project
http://www.bccampus.ca/Page95.aspx Well, hopefully better late then never, a public presence for the BCcampus/Open School BC LOR project I’m working on. There’s not tons of content, but you can see some of our high-level requirements and the results of our product evaluations. I’ve also included the feed from the Apollo-Dev blog using Alan’s handy-dandy Feed2JS script [...]
JISC Review of Learning Design Tools
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ACF83C.doc I found the lead to the LAMS website mentioned below in this useful recent report by Sandy Britain for the JISC. The report gives some background on the history and concepts of learning design, and then after laying out a new framework for evaluating learning design tools, provides an in-depth analysis of Coppercore, EduBox, [...]
LAMS: Learning Activity Management System website
http://www.lamsinternational.com/index.html You may have heard mention in a number of different forums of the LAMS system, developed by James Dalziel and Macquarie University. I’ve been hearing about it for a year now, but so far the most I had been able to find on this alleged learning design authoring tool was a paper or two. [...]
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