Open Source Integration
Very interesting project started about a month ago over at OpenAcademic.org in an effort to integrate four useful open source tools into an environment that would have lots of features for e-learning. The tools they are working with are Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. This integration should result in the following features being offered:
A tip of the hat to D'Arcy Norman from whom I first heard about this.
- a public facing web presence
- departmental intranets
- club/extracurricular sites
- online class sites
- a personal workspace for all members of the school community; this workspace includes web-accessible file storage, social bookmarking, a blog, a podcasting platform, and a presentation/portfolio creator
- a single user base -- no duplicate data entry, no need to synchronize users between multiple databases
- Podcasting
- Safe social networking
- Tagging
- Informal learning
- Learner centric
- ePortfolios
- Personal Learning Environments
- Blogging
- Wikis
A tip of the hat to D'Arcy Norman from whom I first heard about this.
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