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June 2005
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BCcampus selects The Learning Edge to power repository
http://www.bccampus.ca/Page514.aspx Early this year we went (back) out to RFP for software to power a ‘learning object repository’ for BCcampus. OpenSchool BC and the Alberta Online Consortium, both from the K-12 world, were also partners in the RFP. In May we reached a decision to go with The Learning Edge, an LCMS product from Australia. [...]
IMS Compliance Program
http://www.imsproject.org/conformance/index.html I could be wrong, but this seems new, and welcome at that. IMS has announced this new Compliance Program which outlines methods for developers of content, services and applications to provide evidence to support conformance claims based on self testing, and in so doing rate the claim of “IMS Conformant.” While we have had [...]
"Finally, a free lunch: The benefits of an open source VLE" – Report on Oxford's Use of Boddington
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/vle/OpensourceVLE.doc Worth a read, in part because of it’s brevity, this report synopsizes Oxford University’s experiences over the past 4 years in adopting the open source Bodington system. The report points out that the system was chosen largely because it was a nice fit “in terms of [the] joint honours and open access policy” at [...]
Sakai 2.0.0 Release Available
http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php ?option=com_content&task=view&id=255&Itemid=258 A lot of folks have been waiting for this, and here it is – the Sakai project have release version 2.0, which amongst other things includes a Gradebook feature in addition to updates to the Samigo assessment tool. I am undertaking a review of Sakai 2.0 for Edutools right now that we will [...]
Major implementation of .LRN Open Source CMS
http://dotlrn.org/news/one-entry?entry%5fid=101407 Just to follow up on last week’s posts concerning adoption of some open source apps that have been unfairly dissed as not being ‘enterprise ready,’ this news story from the .LRN site reports that The Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) is moving their approximately 200,000 students onto the .LRN platform. – SWL
The Costs of Teaching – New worthwhile blog " Lanny on Learning Technology"
http://guava.cites.uiuc.edu/l-arvan/blog/lannyexport.html I have long held to the tenant that technology, especially computer technology, makes process manifest. As much as some of the conversations we are having now in higher ed are the result of new possibilities that technology innovation have enabled, many of them are also conversations about very long standing practices and processes that [...]
Blender – Open Source 3d Rendering Software
http://www.blender3d.com/cms/Home.2.0.html I’ve noticed a number of folks picking up on Inkspace, a new open source SVG editor, and rightly so – the development of open source apps that are not infrastructural or aimed back at the development community itself is exciting and growing at an incredibly rapid pace. But frankly I was still blown away [...]
Another Commercial Partner for Ed Tech Open Source – The Longsight Group
http://www.longsight.com/open-source/sakai I take the formation of companies like this to be indicators of increase health and viability of open source educational technology initiatives. This Ohio-based company is supporting a suite of apps similar to another U.S.-based firm I’ve mentioned before (in this case they support Sakai, OSPI, uPortal, Drupal, Stanford CourseWork, and CHEF, though one [...]
Athabasca University to adopt Moodle
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24831 Michael Penney, the Coordinator of the Courseware Development Center at California State University, Humboldt, sent me an email recently in response to my post on Moodle and “Enterprise Readiness.” The note pointed me to this post on the Moodle discussion boards (again, just use the ‘Guest’ login if you don’t already have an account.) [...]
Invitation to WCET-led ePortfolio Software Research Project
http://www.edutools.info/ePortfolio/notice.pdf Over at Edutools, where I spend at least half my life, we have been quietly trying out a new model for researching ed tech software and helping people get up to speed on different technology issues. Last year we ran the model for the first time while looking at various Learning Object Repository technologies. [...]
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