I hadn't heard of Class Owl, thanks for sharing. Here are a few other notable open source course management (or quasi CMS) systems: http://cnx.org/aboutus http://sakaiproject.org http://elgg.org http://openscholar.harvard.edu http://kuali.org http://duraspace.org - and some promising multimedia management systems: http://kaltura.org and http://opencastproject.org
Coursekit looks pretty slick, and I can't help but agree with its founder, who says that Blackboard is "counterintuitive, rarely used to its fullest potential, and not designed with students in mind." http://mashable.com/2011/03/17/cousekit/ <http://mashable.com/2011/03/17/cousekit/>Ethan Crawford University of Denver On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Zachary McDowell <[email protected]> wrote: > > These are really interesting - although Class Owl doesn't seem to let anyone in. > > At UMass we have switched from Blackboard to Moodle (or are in the transition) - and although it isn't student-led, it allows professors to have students take a much more varied role (like leading a class - being "instructor" in specific settings). As you all know, Moodle is open-source (and Blackboard is basically the Haliburton if LMS) > > I'm going to play with CourseKit - it looks really interesting. The only thing I'd be concerned about is FERPA violations if the system can't integrate with the campus' system. I really like the idea but essentially the major holdback that I see from utilizing alternative systems is keeping students protected. Professors don't want to use a course management system unless they can post grades (which, unfortunately is one of the only reasons that students use the LMS systems unless forced to) and without a FERPA compliant system, this is problematic. > > > Zach McDowell > Doctoral Candidate > Department of Communication > University of Massachusetts Amherst > > > > > > > On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Kevin Driscoll wrote: > > > Two student-lead course management projects recently came to my > > attention via the Chronicle of Higher Ed: > > > > ClassOwl (Stanford) > > http://www.classowl.com/ > > > > CourseKit (UPenn) > > http://www.coursekit.com/ > > > > None express free culture principles explicitly but they point toward > > a future in which students learn with student-maintained tools. Take a > > look -- what do you think? > > > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
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