Hi! Joel,
I do not have any info for you right now but I wish that you will be
successful. Best regards,
<nina> [email protected]
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:33:26 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: collaborative OCW project
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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