On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 4:01 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> > wrote: >>... >> we're shooting to develop the content beginning in June and start >> the course around September, on Coursera. > > Sage, this might be a great opportunity to ask Coursera to open source > their delivery system soon, and if they refuse you might want to > consider a free content open source platform such as Moodle (which has > abundant free hosting) or https://code.google.com/p/course-builder/ or > http://www.sakaiproject.org/ (formerly Stanford CourseWork.) >
I'm very interested in porting the course to other, more open MOOC platforms if it goes well. In terms of a Coursera-like experience, it looks like Class2Go (also out of Stanford) is a promising project. It's an open source project started by some of the Stanford professors who had previously done some of the courses that laid the groundwork for Coursera. (I took Jennifer Widom's databases course the term before Coursera launched, and it had pretty much the same format as Coursera now uses; Widom is now doing the same course with Class2Go.) edX is also expected to become open source at some point soon. (I've not used their platform, but I expect it will also be strong.) P2PU is still evolving, and porting the course to there would mean some format changes--typical P2PU classes are more go-at-your-own-pace-independently affairs--but I think it'd be worth doing. Wikimedia UK is using Moodle for their "Virtual Learning Environment" project, which I'm eager to check out sometime soon. -Sage _______________________________________________ Education mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
