Computer Based Training and in particular MV Education are topics close to my heart. It's a shame there's little or no interest from the community in funding projects like this or I and many others would jump to create a ton of material to help this market grow. Unfortunately we need to eat too so time needs to be spent on less altruistic endeavors. If the U2 community wants to change that because of a perceived need to create educational materials for a new generation, let's discuss it.
Re PROF: Might be better to use an opensource/freeware tutorial package that's web-based. Hundreds of those available and only one PROF. It can be a community project to create content even without knowing these environments, and everything can be hosted at mvdevcentral.com which was created for the purpose, or some site specific to MV education. An environment that's MV-platform neutral would allow all MV users to benefit, rather than just U2 users. (Which could be good or bad depending on how competitive you are.) Of course platform-specific nuances must be available to the student who wants to focus. Examples of some tutorial creation software follow (I just did some searching, I have no experience with these tools whatsoever): http://moodle.org/ - Moodle, popular CBT/CAI http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/ - HotPotatoes, generally for educators http://www.linux-tutorial.info/Linkbat/ Linux Knowledge Base and Tutorial - could be extended for MV/U2 as well as providing help to a worthy project in its own right. http://www.lib.sfu.ca/MOSST/ - Modular Online Software for Self-Paced Tutorials http://segue.middlebury.edu/index.php?action=site&site=segue - Segue allows students to contribute material to the course and exchange info - very collaborative. There are also web environments that help manage the tutorial process so that students have some interaction with professionals and other students who are familiar with the same material. One example is http://www.interactlms.org/ If people agree that something MV-based is preferable, then rather than trying to remember what PROF did then it might be better to just work up a new set of requirements and design a project from scratch. Again, this can be done with a new project at mvDevCentral. Tools like Ian Renfrew's Jscript for U2 would be ideal to build a front-end for this, although that is of course U2-specific at the moment. (http://mvdevcentral.com/projects/js4u2/) Just tossing out ideas... If the community is really interested in this sort of thing I'd suggest we get someone like Jon Sisk who's "platform neutral" and very focused on education, and work out a way to compensate him to build this community environment. (Corporate contributions from MV vendors or VARs who are interested in their own future, site advertising, subscriptions to web tutorials, advance purchases of final products, general community contributions, etc.) I'd be happy to volunteer work with him on it to some extent, and I dare say there would be others who would as well. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD .com CWNoah2-at-aol.com wrote: > Ray, > > I've been looking for the source code to PROF for years. > I would like to acquire the rights to it, make it GPL, > and bring it into the 21st century. If anyone finds it, > please let me know. > > Regards, > Charlie Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Is PROF still out there and, if so, can someone who > knows advise how to get a legal copy? ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
