Hello, We are a small organization within a relatively small university, and we are working on building a collaborative research and learning platform, based on eduCommons OCW on Plone. eduCommons, as you may know, is a popular Open CourseWare platform in use in many universities around the world.
What we are trying to do is reach out beyond the top-down approach, and beyond the narrow academic sphere to offer a platform for collaboration on learning content. We've been successful in building off of eduCommons, but are facing many roadblocks when it comes to building the collaborative portion - particularly in establishing secure, user-initiated projects, with simple invitation/permissioning, TTW and email-based mailing lists (using "Listen"), and a publication workflow that allows content to be aggregated in a site-wide library. I have three specific questions: 1) are there members of this list who may be interested in contributing to this project, 2) can you suggest good places to find people interested in contributing, and 3) what kinds of products or solutions have you seen in use for this kind of work. As a background: We've looked at other systems like Connexions (cnx.org) and Coactivate (previously OpenPlans), but found their systems to be so highly customized that it is substantially more difficult to build off of than a basic Plone site (or even eduCommons). We've tested out a couple of Plone workgroup products like MXMWorkgroups and TeamSpace, and found them to be lacking in functionality, or conflicting with other aspects of our build. Your suggestions are greatly appreciated, and offers of support even more so! Cheers, Joel Joel Marion The University of Winnipeg Global College 9th floor, 491 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E4 Tel: 204.988.7102 Fax: 204.772.4622 Email: [email protected]
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