Sebi, The best solution for building online university courses, in my opinion, is Moodle -- http://moodle.org. I have used it to build and take many courses. The information below is current as of March 2008.
* Moodle is a free, open source Learning Management System (LMS) integrated with forums, resources, wikis and more. * Can be integrated with third party reporting tool, LCMS and much more. * Runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS-X. * It's compatible with a huge range of databases through ADODB integration. * There's a whole host of authentication and enrolment mechanisms, including LDAP. * Moodle will allow teachers to integrate content in a range of different formats, including SCORM, Flash, MP3s and RSS feeds. O * n the Roadmap for future releases is a Web API which will allow easy integration with other web-based applications. * Highly configurable and extensible. Runs in any browser. Third party hosting available. * 2007 install base 25,281 * 2007 users 10.5 million * Up to 200,000 users per implementation. Mostly academic and governmental implementations, but has largest market share in small industry LMS's * 142 countries and 61 languages Joanna Wiebe Information Architect Orbitz for Business Orbitz Worldwide 500 W. Madison Suite 1000 Chicago, Il 60661 t: 312-260-8274 f: 312-894-5001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Sebi Tauciuc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:19 PM To: ixdadiscuss Subject: [IxDA Discuss] what could work to build a free online university Hi all, I could use some ideas of technical solutions that could be used to build a free online university. It's not that I want to choose the technology first, it's just that I would like to know my options. For example, I was thinking that one wiki might be used to create and manage each course? Would a CMS work? What about testing student's knowledge - any available solutions? A forum (or what?) to build community and manage user accounts? Could different such systems be bound together seamlessly? Is there one big system that could be adjusted to do it all? I am a volunteering 'web designer' for such an online free university, and the current website is horrible - wasting many volunteers' time and patience. I want to plead for a whole new system, built from the ground up, but the development resources are quite scarce (it's all volunteer-based). I want to be able to approximate the amount of effort that will be needed overall, so that I know what kind of resources I'm asking for. Any ideas are highly appreciated! Other advice would be useful as well! Sebi -- Sergiu Sebastian Tauciuc http://www.sergiutauciuc.ro/en/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
