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Monday, March 08, 2004 |
OpenCourseWare and MIT's "intellectual philanthropy". Lisa Currin, MIT's Double-Secret Hidden Agenda,
eLearn. March 4, 2004. Currin reviews the background and the scope of
MIT's OpenCourseWare, quoting the 'tute's Ann Margulies who expresses
the wish that other institutions follow their lead in making
educational materials available to a wide audience over the internet.
The article reports that MIT may have as much as 2000 courses
represented by 2007. Several faculty members relate their experiences
with the program, including Prof. Ron Larsen, who with others aims to
"create an online forum where practitioners, professors, and students
can ask questions and share solutions." (Source: the Kept-Up Academic Librarian) [Open Access News]
10:44:01 PM Google It!.
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Workforce Connections Open Source Software. I'm passing along this information about Workforce Connections from
Seb's Open Research weblog. I've examined the description of Connections and found it interesting and promising as a
multipurpose tool, but I've not yet tried the software. JH
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Open source knowledge sharing tools from the US government. This suite looks pretty interesting, and it's very nice to see governments releasing free software. (via Situativity)
Workforce Connections is the first tool of its kind to be licensed
by the U.S. government free of charge to public and private sector
organizations.
From the FAQ: "What is Workforce Connections[dot accent]? Workforce Connections is a set of
Web-based tools that enable content managers, with no programming
experience, to dynamically create and manage online content in a secure
environment. Workforce Connections; is an open source custom
distribution available under a general public license (GPL) by the U.S.
Department of Labor, it empowers non-technical individuals to create,
acquire, share and control knowledge in real-time. Users can leverage
Workforce Connections to build and maintain traditional Web sites,
online courses, knowledge repository, online coach, and communities of
practice portals."
Apparently, installing it is a techie's job though.
In the same vein: the opensourceCMS directory and exhibition of PHP/MySQL systems. Motto: "try before you install" - what a great idea.
[Seb's Open Research] [EduResources Weblog--Higher Education Resources Online]
10:38:56 PM Google It!.
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