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July 2005
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Hieraki – Hierarchical Wiki Software
http://www.hieraki.org/ Just one of those things that I stumbled across through a dedicated Google search feed; Hieraki is an open source, Ruby-based (hence the reason you’ve probably never heard of it; many who try Ruby seem to rave about it but it never seems to gain traction versus its competitors) wiki-like system that structures pages [...]
Presentation: "Licences, Features, and Community: The Path to Sustainability"
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/events/ 2005-07-04/I050704F_OSS_Watch.pdf Slides from the recent “Building Open Source Communities” conference held in Edinburgh have now been posted. My favourite so far was the above by Jim Farmer of uPortal and now Sakai fame. It’s quite a sprawling piece that covers many aspects of the “business” of open source and higher education. I appreciated the [...]
ConceptTutor
http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/tools/ConceptTutor/ From a reference in the Tools Interoperability demonstrator I mentioned yesterday came a link to this tool, ConceptTutor, built by the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Released under what looks to be an open source license (the source code is available here) it seems to be a glossary tool on steriods, with a structured [...]
Presentations available from 2005 Alt-i-Lab sessions
http://www.imsglobal.org/altilab/ June has been a busy month in the post-secondary elearning world; along with the release of Sakai 2.0, another major milestone happened this month at the Alt-i-lab sessions in Sheffield, England. The page above links to many of the presentations and demonstrations that took place there, possibly most notable of which was the first [...]
Sakai 2.0 Review posted on Edutools site
http://www.edutools.info/course/productinfo/detail.jsp?id=262 I don’t normally post notifications of every new review we do on the Edutools site, but in the case of Sakai there has been a lot of interest from this community and so I thought it might be warranted. As always, we endeavor to provide descriptive, non-evaluative reviews of the software within a framework [...]
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