SOsSOctober 29, 2004 Open Source eLearning Kevin Pitts, CNTTL, Seneca Mike Churchward, Global...

SOsS October 29, 2004

Open Source eLearning

Kevin Pitts, CNTTL, SenecaMike Churchward, Global NetCorps

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Overview

• A Premise

• A Model

• Some Products (Demo)

• Considerations

• Applied Research

• Discussion

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Premise

Is it possible to build an enterprise level elearning infrastructure/environment using open source software?

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Model

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Sakai

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Moodle

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Moodle

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Plone

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Mambo

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Slope

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OJS

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Considerations

Standards• IMS Global (data)

• OKI, OSIDs (technical)

• IMS/IEEE LOM (metadata)

Platform• LAMP

• UNIX, J2EE, ? ?

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Considerations

Development• How, Who• Project management

Support

Licensing• Open-Open (e.g. Sakai)

• Dual (e.g. MySQL)

• Creative Commons

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Openess

• Open Source

• Open Courseware

• Open Knowledge Initiative

• Open Archives Initiative

• Open Standards; Open Architecture

• Community Source

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Applied Research

• Community of like-minded people/ organizations

• Outcomes:• Educational Value• Commercial Entity/Product

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Discussion

• Ideas

• Thoughts

• Questions

• Answers

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Thanks for having us

kevin.pitts@senecac.on.ca

mike@churchward.ca