{"id":561,"date":"2005-03-10T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2005-03-10T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/10\/edutech-mauritius\/"},"modified":"2005-03-10T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2005-03-10T17:39:28","slug":"edutech-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/10\/edutech-mauritius\/","title":{"rendered":"Edutech Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutech.mu\/\">http:\/\/www.edutech.mu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember having to go <a href=\"http:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/files\/2005\/03\/mauritius.jpg\">look up Mauritius on a map<\/a> a few years back when I first heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/vcampus.uom.ac.mu\/lor\/index.php?menu=1\">learning object repository project<\/a> that had started there (a PHP-based repository that looks to be steadily growing).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not content to rest on their laurels for being the smallest (and one of the first) country to have a learning object repository, someone there has decided to innovate further and create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutech.mu\/\">Edutech Mauritius<\/a>, a Drupal-based site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutech.mu\/courses\/browse.php\">offering some free online courses<\/a>, as well as serving as the hub of a community for &#8220;promoting and applying information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the educational experience.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know at all that these two initiaitves have any conntection, but to see both of them come out of this rather small island nation is amazing and impressive. It&#8217;s things like this, plus <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Big%20Blue%20backs%20PHP%20for%20Web%20development\/2100-7344_3-5589559.html?tag=nefd.top\">announcements like these<\/a>, that make me want to focus on getting back to hacking solutions on my own again. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.edutech.mu\/ I remember having to go look up Mauritius on a map a few years back when I first heard about the learning object repository project that had started there (a PHP-based repository that looks to be steadily growing). Apparently not content to rest on their laurels for being the smallest (and one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/03\/10\/edutech-mauritius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Edutech Mauritius&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-lor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}