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Giunti Labs acquires HarvestRoad
http://www.giuntilabs.com/info.php?vvu=15&pud=450 Increasingly I am focusing on things other than repositories (Amen!) but it still occupies some of my attention, so this news (even 3 months after the fact) still caught my eye. Apparently Harvest Road, an Australian learning object repository/learning content management system vendor, has been acquired by the Italian-based elearning product vendor Giunti Labs. [...]
dLCMS – Open Source LCMS built on Silva/Zope
http://www.dlcms.ethz.ch/ Ahhhh, love those Google searches. Whilst searching (and still seeking) information about the standards compliance of WebCT CE 6 content exports, I stumbled across this find, the dynamic Learning Content Management System. Built as an extension of the open source CMS called Silva, dLCMS bills itself as a “content management system for web based [...]
PROWE (Personal Repositories Online Wiki Environment) Project
http://www.prowe.ac.uk/index.htm JISC-funded project that sets out to examine “in what ways could wiki and wiki-type environments be useful and useable as personal and informal repositories to support professional development within part-time tutor communities of practice?” While I think a lot of us already participating in the edublogosphere might think the answers self-evident, I am definitely [...]
On Using DSpace as a LOR
www.edtechpost.ca/gems/coppul-lor3.ppt Pheew! Back home now after a hectic (for me) week of travelling and talking, one of which was a talk I gave to the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) Distance Education Forum on the feasibility of using DSpace as a general learning object repository. I have been pretty hard on this [...]
RepoMMan Project
http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/repomman/index.html To keep going on the apparent ‘open source repository’ theme today, this JISC-funded project appears to be using Fedora and Sakai to investigate automated population of metadata based on contextual information provided by the portal environment, to examine the boundaries of personal versus institutional digital resource management, and to develop some workflow aroud common [...]
Presentation on Archiving Course Websites to DSpace, Using a Content Packaging Profile & Web Services
http://cwspace.mit.edu/docs/ProjectMgt/Reports/ DLF-Spring2006/MIT-CWSpace-DLF-Spring2006.ppt.htm For a long time I’ve been asked about available open source learning object repositories, and specifically about whether DSpace could work as a LOR. My answer regarding DSpace, up to now, has always been – well it depends on what your use cases are. If you didn’t care about things like IMS Content [...]
DOOR – Digital Open Object Repository
http://door.sourceforge.net/ OK, I know NOTHING about this, so don’t even ask, but it seemed like something of interest (if you are still flailing away at that LOR hobgoblin) – an open source Learning Object Repository written in PHP and using MySQL as the backend which supports both the IMS metadata and content package specifications. Looks [...]
CLOE Partners with Desire2Learn
http://www.desire2learn.com/news/newsdetails_21.asp An announcement from the CLOE project that they have adopted Desire2Learn as their repository technology. CLOE is significant as a Canadian project for early on investigating different models of ‘exchange’ to motivate faculty and institutions to participate in sharing networks. Will be interesting to see this once it has been deployed. – SWL
Why does 'Freesound' succeed when so many learning object repositories fail?
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ Bryan Alexander posted a link to The Freesound Project and it was interesting to me for a whole slew of reasons. It was interesting first off because I have been using the site myself for the last few months; I am getting more into making music with digital audio tools (yes, yes, I will [...]
Any B.C. or Alberta-based users of LAMS? Atutor?
If you are currently using or planning to use LAMS or Atutor and are located in B.C. or Alberta, please let me know. I am currently scouting out integration opportunities for our repository software, and these two are potential ones that have come up, but I need to know if its of any value to [...]
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