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OLAT (Online Learning And Training): Open Source LMS

October 15, 2007

OLAT (Online Learning And Training) is a web-based open-source Learning Management System (LMS) based on Java and completely free of charge. The development of OLAT started in 1999 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where it is the strategic learning management system and deployed on the main OLAT server. The University of Zurich leads the [...]

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Open Conference on Technology in Education: Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange 2008

July 8, 2007

Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange 2008 (TTIX): The Open Conference on Technology in Education. ‘The 4th Annual Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange will be June 5-6, 2008 on the UVSC campus in Orem, Utah, with a pre-conference workshop on faculty development June 4. Join other educators, developers, and innovators from across the nation and beyond [...]

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Online Book: Producing Open Source Software

June 4, 2007

Producing Open Source Software, by Karl Fogel. ‘Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. It is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O’Reilly Media), or you can browse [...]

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Sharing Open Resources at The Bazaar

May 9, 2007

The Bazaar. ‘The Bazaar is a community portal for people who want to use, exchange and share Open Source Software and resources to support learning. The major aim of the project is to develop and support a community of practice for teachers, trainers, moderators and facilitators in the development, creation, exchange and use of e-learning [...]

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Elgg – An Open Source Social Networking Platform

April 28, 2007

Elgg. ‘Elgg is an open source software platform designed to allow people to easily connect and share resources. Established in March 2004 by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, Elgg allows you to create a social network and host it on your own infrastructure, modifying the features to fit your specific needs. Users establish personal digital [...]

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Article: Open Access Learning Environments

April 24, 2007

Open Access Learning Environments, Kenneth Mentor, Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Vol. 10, Spring 2007. From the abstract: Educational institutions are increasingly adopting “closed” learning environments that hide learning materials in password-protected areas. While this may be a logical solution to a range of problems, much is lost in this mode of course delivery. [...]

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CC Learn: Promoting Interoperability Among Open Educational Resources Repositories

April 16, 2007

Wanted: Single standard for open-content licenses. ‘New effort aims to unite open educational resources (OERs) under a common framework for permissions. The movement toward open course materials for education has created something of a problem: Although a number of repositories have been set up to allow users to download sharable online content, many of these [...]

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UNESCO Open Training Platform

April 1, 2007

Open Training Platform. ‘UNESCO facilitates a collaborative access to existing free training courses and promotes open licensed resources to specialized groups and local communities for development. The objective behind this platform is to empower trainers or/and trainees with free resources, offer them a structured collaborative space to share their training but also to promote and [...]

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