Comments on: Open Sourceware Consortium

Open Sourceware Consortium

dragonsi55 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:34:41 -0800

Open Sourceware Consortium "While MIT has pioneered the open courseware movement where many class materials are made freely available online, there's now an Open Courseware Consortium extending courses to dozens of universities and many thousands of courses." - Don Lancaster

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:35:48 -0800

Did you mean open coursewear?

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:45:36 -0800

No, silly: open coarse wair.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:50:47 -0800

At Rice University: Connexions At Utah State: EduCommons (supporting Utah State OCW)

By: dragonsi55

dragonsi55 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:15:32 -0800

Fnark

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:37:27 -0800

And if you're looking to create online coursework (think webCT/blackboard) via open source, there's always Moodle

By: idb

idb — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:41:39 -0800

Also ATutor or Dokeos or Claroline or Sakai. There are a number of mature open source learning management systems (LMS) out there beyond the two that most people think of (moodle and sakai). There's some hope that LMS will be substantially supplanted by Personal Learning Environments (PLE) like Elgg. EduCommons and Connexions are both built on Zope, and there's a demo instance of EduCommons here. Novell is even using it. I've often wondered though about these open courseware initiatives in terms of what they actually offer beyond some structure to get at content that's already out there. The structure is useful in defining the subjects, but it is just content, isn't it? What does an open courseware system offer that a regular content management system does not?

By: Tacodog

Tacodog — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:10:47 -0800

Is this the same Don Lancaster who used to have a column in Nuts and Volts? I used to read his articles in high school. If it's the same guy, I'm glad he's still mixing it up.

By: dragonsi55

dragonsi55 — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:26:04 -0800

Tacodog - this is the same guy. He's been mentioned in comments, but I posted the site in the blue.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:38:41 -0800

EduCommons and Connexions are both built on Zope Actually, built on Plone (which is built on CMF which is built on Zope).