By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 29 March 2004
Main categories: Education & e-Learning, ICT4D
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Completing Thursday‘s post, there go two more links (via Unintended Consequences):
LINC Caddie.NET Portal Factory: “Developed to be highly scalable across institutions and countries, it can support an unlimited number of courses and students. The CADDIE Collaborative Architectures for a Distributed Instructional Environment is designed to take advantage of the wide range of collaboration technology available on today’s highly calable Web Platforms, including messenger, voice over IP and real time and streaming video.”
CADDIE.NET Team Server Portal: “This site serves as the hub application for information exchange. It provides online news, event and course information, along with interactive discussion forums and students contact information. In a nutshell, everything needed to maintain and run the fast-growing course site.”
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 25 March 2004
Main categories: Education & e-Learning, ICT4D
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[Via SIT and Bonnie Bracey @ DigitalDivide discussion list]
It looks like MIT has released a F/OSS content management system (CMS). According to them, it also looks like a learning management system (LMS):
Developed to be highly scalable across institutions and countries, it can support an unlimited number of courses and students. The CADDIE Collaborative Architectures for a Distributed Instructional Environment is designed to take advantage of the wide range of collaboration technology available on today’s highly calable Web Platforms, including messenger, voice over IP and real time and streaming video.
It’s a pity I haven’t been able to enter its demo site, ’cause Bonnie says that “the software, which can be downloaded free, allows users to build various portals for the different aspects of a distance-education program. Portals can be built, for example, for registration, course management, or online testing.”
We’ll wait and see.
So far, OpenCourseWare and Caddie.net CourseServer seem to me quite a nice pair.
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 25 March 2006
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e-Learning
e-Readiness
ICT4D
Free Software
Nonprofits
Online Volunteering
Open Access
By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 26 April 2004
Main categories: Education & e-Learning, ICT4D
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See if I can make a list of things that MIT is carrying out in the field of “sharing his knowledge” and “applicable to e-learning for development”. Some copy-paste from institutional sites, some comments by myself, some by Octeto:
Intellectual Commons
MIT makes materials freely available to strengthen overall university commons.
- Commiting to integrating educational-technology deeply into on-campus education
- Creating major, shared campus-wide educational resources
It includes OKI, OCW, DSpace and .LRN
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Open Knowledge Iniciative (OKI)
It is a collaboration among leading universities and specification and standards organizations to support innovative learning technology in higher education.
The result is an open and extensible architecture that specifies how the components of an educational software environment communicate with each other and with other enterprise systems. OKI provides a modular development platform for building both traditional and innovative applications while leveraging existing and future infrastructure technologies.
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OpenCourseWare (OCW)
Is a large-scale, Web-based initiative to provide free, worldwide access to educational materials for virtually all MIT courses.
OCW is not a course or distance learning, but it is courseware.
Rather than substitute for the experience of being a student at the Institute, OCW will provide students, faculty, and other interested parties throughout the world free and valuable educational materials.
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DSpace
A durable electronic archive for 10,000 MIT research papers and other publications per year. DSpace is a groundbreaking digital library system to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistribute the intellectual output of a university’s research faculty in digital formats.
Developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP), DSpace is now freely available to research institutions world-wide as an open source system that can be customized and extended.
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.LRN
Is open source software and a development kit for supporting innovation in collaborative education and learning and research communities. Originally developed at MIT as part of the Intellectual Commons, .LRN is now backed by a worldwide consortium of educational institutions, non-profit organizations, industry partners, and open source developers. .LRN capabilities include course management, online communities, learning management, and content management applications.
In other words:
- A fully open source eLearning platform
- A portal framework and integrated application suite to support course management and online communities
- A set of best practices in online learning shared in the form of source code
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Caddie.NET
It serves as the hub application for information exchange. It provides online news, event and course information, along with interactive discussion forums and students contact information. In a nutshell, everything needed to maintain and run the fast-growing course site.
As I understand it: .LRN manages the course learning environment (contents, interaction, etc.) and Caddie.NET manages the course site or information environment (information, news, etc.)
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By Ismael Peña-López (@ictlogist), 02 April 2004
Main categories: ICT4D, Meetings, Online Volunteering
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On Thursday 15th April I’m speaking at the First International Congress about E-Learning and social inclusion
My communication will be 30 minutes long within the framework of Thursday afternoon (15.45-17.15) session II: Problem solving methodology for e-learning. Ain’t no complete communications programme yet: promise to publish at once when noticed.
Though I’m still thinking on what I exactly want to say, my mental scheme is as follows:
The online volunteer: knowledge manager and transmitter
Theoretical Framework
- Taxonomny of the online volunteer
- The potential virtual volunteer as the eternal excluded from cooperation for development: a “market” to discover
- The virtual volunteer en his knowledge centered role: store, organize, create and transfer knowledge
Practical case: e-Learning for e-Inclusion
A three pieces puzzle:
- Content and didactic materials
- e-Learning platform
- Syllabus, coordination and teaching
Main characteristics of online volunteering centered e-learning projects:
- The e-volunteer as the knowledge transmitter, without time nor space boundaries
- South-south cooperation: the e-volunteer placed at the target social framework
- Economic sustainability: online volunteering costs, replication opportunities, multiplier effects of the model
Can I set up a project like this?
- The experience of the Campus for Peace
- Free content: GNU licenses, Creative Commons, MIT OpenCourseWare and Learning Objects repositories
- Free e-learning platforms: Moodle, Claroline, MIT Caddie.net, other F/OSS supports
- Virtual volunteers: Onlinevolunteers.org, others.
