Re: Modperl and Distance Education

[Chris Winters]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:46:27 +1000, Alfred Vahau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi,
  Are there any major distance education sites powered by modperl technology?
  I work for a University with 7 campuses scattered around the country. Provision of 
 distance
  education through online access to teaching material and academic transcripts are 
 among the long
  term goals of the university.

Dicole MimerDesk is built on top of OpenInteract (pure-Perl
application serveR) and seems to serve this purpose:

http://www.dicole.fi/en/community/about/overview

Chris

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RE: Modperl and Distance Education

[Todd Cranston-Cuebas]

Looks like PHP hasquite a lock on this market. Many 
of the online collaborative systems are PHP/mysql based. Top open-source 
contenders in this market would be:

Moodle (moodle.org)
ATutor (atutor.ca)
Ilias (www.ilias.uni-koeln.de/ios/index-e.html)

Note that these are collaborative learning management 
systems attempted to go head-to-head with commercial LMS's. I'm sure that there 
are some that are perl-based, but these are getting a lot of attention and 
they're all PHP-based.

Todd




  
  
  From: Alfred Vahau 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:46 
  PMTo: ModperlSubject: Modperl and Distance 
  Education
  Hi,Are there any major distance education sites powered by 
  modperl technology?I work for a University with 7 campuses scattered 
  around the country. Provision of distanceeducation through online access 
  to teaching material and academic transcripts are among the longterm goals 
  of the university.I find it challenging to develop a site to meet the 
  university's requirements. It has been proposedthat I consider Java or PHP 
  applications to develop the site to include online directory for allstaff 
  and students connected to the university. However, I am confident that I can 
  meet the sameobjectives using modperl technology. Somewhere I think I can 
  use Bricolage or Mason and I amwondering whether these are appropriate 
  technologies to consider. Or are there other applications ofmodperl 
  relating to delivery of distance education that I am not aware 
  of.Coming from a traditional Unix background in connection with 
  academic research, I turned to Perl in2000 to survive in an environment 
  dominated by Windows operating system. I continue to work on myown Breeze Project for which an 
  early account was posted on the Oreilly site in 2002. Since then I 
  havebeen following developments and have tested modperl and apache on 
  trial basis.Any pointers to help in broadening my options would be 
  highly appreciated.Many thanks in advance,Alfred 
  VahauDirectorInformation Technology ServicesUniversity of Papua 
  New GuineaInformation Resources 
Centre