An interesting related Ars article: Money flowing into "open courseware" on college campuses<http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/money-flowing-into-open-courseware-on-college-campuses.ars>
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Emily Puckett Rodgers <[email protected]>wrote: > Another one that just came out is Canvas from instructure ( > http://www.instructure.com/). > > U-M and others (Indiana, Cambridge) also use Sakai. > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Clark, Nicholas > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Is anyone here familiar with Big Blue Button? I'm not sure if it's the >> kind of thing being discussed here, but it does look pretty impressive: >> http://www.bigbluebutton.org/ >> ________________________________________ >> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Ethan [[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 2:35 PM >> To: Discussion of Free Culture in general and this organization in >> particular >> Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] Student-lead course management software >> >> I hadn't heard of Class Owl, thanks for sharing. Here are a few other >> notable open source course management (or quasi CMS) systems: >> http://cnx.org/aboutus http://sakaiproject.org http://elgg.org >> http://openscholar.harvard.edu http://kuali.org http://duraspace.org - >> and some promising multimedia management systems: http://kaltura.org and >> http://opencastproject.org >> >> Coursekit looks pretty slick, and I can't help but agree with its founder, >> who says that Blackboard is "counterintuitive, rarely used to its fullest >> potential, and not designed with students in mind." >> http://mashable.com/2011/03/17/cousekit/ >> >> <http://mashable.com/2011/03/17/cousekit/>Ethan Crawford >> University of Denver >> >> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Zachary McDowell < >> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > >> > These are really interesting - although Class Owl doesn't seem to let >> anyone in. >> > >> > At UMass we have switched from Blackboard to Moodle (or are in the >> transition) - and although it isn't student-led, it allows professors to >> have students take a much more varied role (like leading a class - being >> "instructor" in specific settings). As you all know, Moodle is open-source >> (and Blackboard is basically the Haliburton if LMS) >> > >> > I'm going to play with CourseKit - it looks really interesting. The only >> thing I'd be concerned about is FERPA violations if the system can't >> integrate with the campus' system. I really like the idea but essentially >> the major holdback that I see from utilizing alternative systems is keeping >> students protected. Professors don't want to use a course management system >> unless they can post grades (which, unfortunately is one of the only reasons >> that students use the LMS systems unless forced to) and without a FERPA >> compliant system, this is problematic. >> > >> > >> > Zach McDowell >> > Doctoral Candidate >> > Department of Communication >> > University of Massachusetts Amherst >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Kevin Driscoll wrote: >> > >> > > Two student-lead course management projects recently came to my >> > > attention via the Chronicle of Higher Ed: >> > > >> > > ClassOwl (Stanford) >> > > http://www.classowl.com/ >> > > >> > > CourseKit (UPenn) >> > > http://www.coursekit.com/ >> > > >> > > None express free culture principles explicitly but they point toward >> > > a future in which students learn with student-maintained tools. Take a >> > > look -- what do you think? >> > > >> > > Kevin >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Discuss mailing list >> > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> > > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Discuss mailing list >> > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >> > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> >> > > > -- > Open Education Coordinator, Open.Michigan <http://open.umich.edu> > Office of Enabling Technologies > University of Michigan Medical School > open.umich.edu/blog > > (734) 998 7739 > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
_______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
