Disclaimer: I am the project manager of the software described below
Open source is just beginning to seep into academia, primarily because many institutions are balking at the absurd pricing of commercial course management systems such as BlackBoard and WebCT. MIT's Stellar and dotlrn, Stanford's Courseworks, Michegan's CHEF are various approaches to course management using open source code.
A very different approach to course management is being developed at Middlebury College based on weblogs called Segue. Segue seems to me to be far more flexible than any of the above allowing site owners to create their own navigation, organize content chronologically and allow for discussion of stories. It is modelled on Slashcode, PHPNuke, MovableType and includes a portal to class information. see:
http://segue.middlebury.edu/sites/segue
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Disclaimer: I am the project manager of the software described below
Open source is just beginning to seep into academia, primarily because many institutions are balking at the absurd pricing of commercial course management systems such as BlackBoard and WebCT. MIT's Stellar and dotlrn, Stanford's Courseworks, Michegan's CHEF are various approaches to course management using open source code.
A very different approach to course management is being developed at Middlebury College based on weblogs called Segue. Segue seems to me to be far more flexible than any of the above allowing site owners to create their own navigation, organize content chronologically and allow for discussion of stories. It is modelled on Slashcode, PHPNuke, MovableType and includes a portal to class information. see: http://segue.middlebury.edu/sites/segue