Tcl/Tk part of Google Summer of Code 2008

The Tcl/Tk application was accepted to Google Summer of Code 2008. If you have any .LRN/OpenACS projects that you think would work well as part of GSoC, please post them to
http://wiki.tcl.tk/20832

See http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message%5fid=1471235

08:28 PM, 19 Mar 2008 by Emmanuelle Raffenne Permalink | Comments (0)

dotLRN translated into greek

dotLRN has been translated into more language: greek!

 This language will be available in the next release of dotLRN (2.4) scheduled by early 2008.

11:09 PM, 21 Nov 2007 by Emmanuelle Raffenne Permalink | Comments (0)

.LRN Consortium Announces new Membership Levels [dotlrn.org]

The information about memberships, benefits, consortium duties funded by membership, and specific contributions to the consortium is now available at the .LRN Consortium Membership page.

There are different levels of membership depending the organization type, use of .LRN and resources it has. The membership helps to support .LRN growth, many new features are coming and the consortium is leading the innovation.

.LRN is Open Source and free to use, members of the .LRN Consortium have found the Consortium an excellent place to invest in the improvements for the platform. The .LRN Leadership Group and the .LRN Board of Directors serve as committed volunteers without economic retribution from the .LRN Consortium.

10:15 AM, 25 Sep 2007 by Rocael Hernandez Permalink | Comments (0)

.LRN 2.3.1 released [openacs.org]

A new version of .LRN is available for download.

The focus on this release was mainly on improving accessibility, within the Zen project.

IMS-LD player has been included.
Accessibility: level AA for all .LRN packages.

Support for oracle and postgres. 

12:13 AM, 18 Sep 2007 by Rocael Hernandez Permalink | Comments (0)

LAMS2 and .LRN integration (beta) released! [wiki.lamsfoundation.org]

LAMS2 and .LRN 2.3 are now integrated.

The integration allows .LRN teachers to seamlessly add LAMS lessons to their .LRN courses. These lessons are sequences of Learning Activities that teachers design using the LAMS drag-and-drop authoring environment.

LAMS2 is quite different from its version 1 release, which it was also integrated with .LRN. For more info, hit the LAMS wiki docs.

I have set up a LAMS2 - .LRN 2.3.1 demo server for those of you who might want to give it a spin.

Also, here is a two minute animation on how it all works.

More info, source and tech docs, available in the LAMS2 .LRN wiki page.

01:10 AM, 12 Sep 2007 by Caroline Meeks Permalink | Comments (0)

Usage of .LRN in aDeNu Research Projects [openacs.org]

aDeNu work has been disseminated at the IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMEDIA AND INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION (mICTE-06).

Current works relate to FAA and EU4ALL Projects.

As you can see in the corresponding paper and poster, FAA (Open and Accessible Training) is based on .LRN to support accessible standard-based (IMS, SCORM) collaborative and adaptive courses along the full life cycle of eLearning.

In turn, EU4ALL (European Unified Approach for Accessible Lifelong Learning) aims to build an open and accessible service architecture for all to cope with the accessibility requirements in higher education institutions in Europe. OpenACS toolkit (using the web services support developed by Wien) is going to be used.

Links:
FAA: paper & poster
EU4ALL: paper & poster

aDeNu is a R&D group at the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Spanish National University for Distance Education (UNED). This group is specialized in the development of adaptive interfaces through Internet to support the learning needs in the whole cycle of eLearning. Recently, the group is focusing the special needs to provide an inclusive learning for all.

06:50 AM, 30 Nov 2006 by Emmanuelle Raffenne Permalink | Comments (0)

.LRN Leadership Team 2006/2007

Congratulations to the following list of people who were selected to be on the .LRN Leadership Team.

See the .LRN Governance.

More info:
http://openacs.org/news/item?item_id=482077

08:39 PM, 11 Oct 2006 by Rocael Hernandez Permalink | Comments (0)

New version of the .LRN IMS-LD 1.1.0 tagged and released [openacs.org]

As part of the E-LANE project, the uc3m is glad to announce the second release of the IMS-LD package. We are also glad to announce that we were invited to give a demo of the package in the IMS Global Consortium Quarterly Meetings and Learning Design Summit, which will be held in the Open University of the Netherlands in November.

Among other things, the package includes:

  • Full Level A support (parser and player)
    • Simple sequencing of activities
    • Simple integration with LORS and Assessment
    • Services support: E-mail and Forums
    • Roles support for the Unit of Learning (UoL)
  • Full Level B support (parser and player)
    • Properties support
    • Conditional sequencing
    • Evaluation of conditions/expressions
    • Support of imsldcontent resources (where the users can manipulate properties)
    • Services support: Monitor

The package is being developed in the HEAD branch of CVS. If you want to try it you have two options:

  1. Use our test server: http://strauss.gast.it.uc3m.es/ (There you will find info about the a ccounts)
  2. Install .LRN from the CVS or the latest tarball, then get the package from CVS and install it. (IMS-LD install guide)

We will now focus on:

  • Support for Level C
  • Monitoring tools for the course administrators
  • Fixing bugs and improving the package (both user interface and code)

You are welcome to try the package, and any suggestions, comments or bug reports will be greatly appreciated.

09:37 AM, 05 Oct 2006 by Rocael Hernandez Permalink | Comments (0)

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