Tag: CMS

WebCT Powerlinks to open source portfolios, HorizonLive synchronous tools

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/
google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&
newsId=20031106005458&newsLang=en
and also
http://www.horizonlive.com/aboutus/news/
press_release_view.php?id=35

Two recent press releases from WebCT that help to illustrate the strategy the major CMS players are adopting to extend their products. In WebCT’s case the strategy is called “Powerlinks,” which I take to be roughly analogous to Blackboard’s “BuildingBlocks” initiative…
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Experiences with Learning Management Systems in 113 European Institutions

http://ifets.ieee.org/periodical/6_4/13.pdf

The latest issues from the IEEE journal Educational Technology & Society contains this important article, a “meta-analysis of six regional analyses conducted within the framework of the European Web-edu project.” The report presents a fairly comprehensive picture of CMS/LMS uptake across Europe…
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My Sourceforge Project Feed Subscriptions/RSS for product and company news

http://www.bloglines.com/public/EdTechPost

For what it’s worth, here are the feeds (displayed in the amazing Bloglines public interface) from the course management/authoring tools/eportfolio projects that I follow on Sourceforge…
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Interact – Online Learning and Collaboration Platform

http://cce-interact.sourceforge.net/

I had heard about the LearnLoop project quite a while back, but apparently some folks down in New Zealand have picked it up and created this open source system based on it. Very simple, but in many cases could suffice to share basic course information, links, documents and facilitate some student interaction. WIll add it to the list. – SWL

Institutional Studies of the Educational Uses of Web Course Management Systems

http://www.tltgroup.org/WCMS/
LitReview/Abstracts.htm

This resource isn’t particularly new but there’s a reference to it in the last article that reminded me of it. It’s a combination of studies on institutional uses of CMS and resources to choose and implement CMS, and highlights a number of articles by some old friends at Mount Royal College. – SWL

Wanted – Course Revision Without Pain

http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?
show=article&id=1034

The latest (hopefully not last) issue of The Technology Source has this great article by Jo Paoletti on the issue of course revisions within a CMS environment. She’s absolutely right when she says that “course maintenance and revision [have not been] on the horizon. It is time to put the latter on the agenda…”
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Blackboard’s recent earnings, overall growth of CMS industry

http://www.cpwire.com/archive/2003/11/4/1430.asp

This news release basically backs up what was coming out of Blackboard’s conference a few months back, that they are making money and finally turning a profit. But I thought it was worth posting because of this other line – “Blackboard`s yearly revenue was $620,000 in 1998 and $69.2 million in 2002” or in other words, a 11,047% growth in revenue in 4 years …
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Another open source CMS – Interactive Learning Environment

http://virtualschool.edu/ile/

Again new to me but maybe not new (why does no one put dates on their pages!), an early version of a new open source ‘cms’, this time in part notable because it is written in Ruby.

Also, you may or may not have noticed that I am slowly moving over some of the more trafficed resources from the old site. So far I’ve reposted the list of open source course management systems, which I am now trying to keep more up to date. More to come. – SWL

Open Learning Management System (O-LMS)

http://www.psych.utah.edu/learn/olms/

New to me is this java-based open source ‘LMS’ from the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah. This system is designed to support “vigorous shared knowledge communities” and as such focuses very much on communication and collaboration tools and seems to recognize the role of shareable learning content though it is unclear to me what kind of actual functionality it offers there. One thing that seems slightly unfortunate is to base an open source project on Oracle and Solaris, but this may well have been what was literally at hand. – SWL

Draft paper on using community software for rich constructivist education

http://tecfa.unige.ch/proj/seed/catalog/
docs/sevilla03-schneider.pdf

This 39 page paper (draft 1.5) by Daniel Schneider is well worth the effort. On top of the ton of good thinking on why traditional CMS don’t suffice and what roles the instructor might play within different pedagogical designs, the paper was worthwhile simply for introducing (at least to me) the term “Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems” (C3MS) to describe packages such as Plone, PostNuke and Drupal. As the author notes, these are often discussed as ‘content management systems’ but this term belies much of their true nature as collaborative and community-building content management systems. – SWL

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