On 9/30/05, Ryan Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <long snip about collaborative content creation />
> here's what i would think could be improved: > -robust tagging and metadata for indexing/searching This is a big hairy issue which I've spent a lot of time on personally. It is definitely a sufficiently complex problem that using semantic web technologies (RDF, OWL, etc) would have a big payoff down the road. > -revisioning and forking Mark Shuttleworth is funding a lot of work on distributed revision control as part of the underlying Ubuntu/LaunchPad infrastructure. I think it is likely that when the dust settles on that, a couple years down the road, we'll be able to take a serious look at applying that software to educational content creation. Ultimately, that is the right model. I, as a teacher, download some content, create a branch, tweak it to fit my needs, and then offer my changes back to the community, either as a separate branch or perhaps merged into the "main distribution." > -integration with a scheduling program (perhaps organized by class) > -semester/year-long course timelines linking to any materials used > (syllabus, handouts, wikibooks, quizzes/tests, homework, etc) This stuff is known generically (in the US) as "curriculum mapping." I would like to see SchoolTool eventually (SchoolTool 2007 or 2008) support curriculum mapping, although the curriculum itself would not necessarily be handled by SchoolTool. Which gets you into the welter of interoperability standards. Perhaps this is a job for IMS Learning Design? I'm not sure. Actually, the best existing project IMHO for this kind of thing is the Connexions project at Rice University: http://cnx.rice.edu/ --Tom -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
