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Author:   Raymond Yee  
Posted: 8/13/2003; 3:25:36 PM
Topic: Anyone know much about .LRN?
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Anyone know much about .LRN? #

Anyone know much about .LRN -- which Peter Brantley from the CDL just put me on to?  A few things I gleaned about .LRN:

First of all, it seems to be coming out of the Sloan school (which made me think -- oh, it's one of the many, many LMSes running at MIT).  Also,  .LRN is built on OpenACS (".LRN is built on OpenACS <http://openacs.org> (Open Architecture Community System), a powerful web toolkit for building highly-scalable database-backed web sites. OpenACS is developed by a world-wide community of experienced web hackers who are committed to building a solid, fully open source web platform.", a quote from http://dotlrn.mit.edu/technical/index.html)

Being in the standards business, I was wondering about its "OKI compliance" -- yep, OKI is mentioned on the site (http://dotlrn.mit.edu/).  And how about IMS and SCORM? There is a page (http://openacs.org/projects/dotlrn/dotlrn-enhancments/ims/) but it's currently blank. Hmm...what is that supposed to mean?

OpenACS, I know as originating from Phillip Greenspun's system -- which seemed quite cool some years ago when I first looked at it.  I wonder how well it's worked in practice.

I have no sense of what .LRN is like from the user-point of view.  I'd be curious whether people here at the the ETS (educational technology services) knows anything about it since it has been evaluating LMSes. Anyone else have any experience with .LRN?


 
Posted by Raymond Yee on 8/13/03; 3:25:40 PM
from the Web Technology dept.

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