Forum OpenACS Q&A: openACS work at WEG / Univ. of Sydney
As a result of yesterday's openACS social I decided to write this list of of our activities/people working in dotLRN (copied below but to be maintained in that page).
Hopefully this will clarify what we do down-under and maybe improve the collaboration on individual projects.
Development
Ongoing projects include some that started as short projects but that
we plan to maintain or take to a production quality.
Short projects (normally not for production but that might be interesting for other projects)
This course had 20 enrolled students this year, but could also be used to train other openACS developers. The course is far from ready, but I am designing so it can also be taken at a distance (online).
Rafael maintains the case-studies section at www.dotlrng.org and is a member of the dotLRN Executive Board, founding member of the (soon to be) eLearning Network of Australasia and researcher in "intelligent Learning Management Systems" (iLMS)
Rafael has published several journal and magazine articles about openACS/dotLRN:
Development
Ongoing projects include some that started as short projects but that
we plan to maintain or take to a production quality.- Web Services: Nick
Carroll has added web service functionalities (consumer side) as
SQL functions into PostgreSQL and is looking at how service oriented
architetures can be used with/in openACS as a producer of webservices.
- SCORM and Learning Objects: Ernie
Ghiglione is implementing a Learning Object reporsitory using CR.
It will import /export course materials in IMS SCORM
format. An API Adapter for a SCORM Run-time
Environment was implementated by Adam
Ullman.
- Clickstream Analysis. Originally based on a package written at
MIT, ported to openACS/PostgreSQL by Nick
Carroll (with supervision from Bruno Mattarollo of Greenpeace) and
then ported to Oracle (and improved efficiency) by Vasudev Uthayakumar.
The tool is being used at Greenpeace International.
- Catalog System. Designed to manage ODP
data, will eventually include assistance from an automatic
classification system already developed but not ported to openACS. The
last version is by Abbas
Chebli.
- Collaboration with RSS feeds (aka Market Intelligence platform).
The first
version by Kim Tran uses code from Lucmo and was also
supervised by Andres Montefeltro of Neoris
Corp.
Short projects (normally not for production but that might be interesting for other projects)
- SMS notifications service for openACS by Jackson
Chow.
- A web
mail system for OpenACS (IMAP) was developed by Ayman Mohamed.
- Other
projects
- Arabic (AR_LB) by Danny Elmassih
- Korean (KOR) by SG Kim
- Chinese (ZH) by Lanzhi Teng
Teaching and Advocacy
Rafael Calvo has designed and teaches a course on Web Application Frameworks. Although the course is not just on opeACS all the lab activities are around it. The course is available online here.This course had 20 enrolled students this year, but could also be used to train other openACS developers. The course is far from ready, but I am designing so it can also be taken at a distance (online).
Rafael maintains the case-studies section at www.dotlrng.org and is a member of the dotLRN Executive Board, founding member of the (soon to be) eLearning Network of Australasia and researcher in "intelligent Learning Management Systems" (iLMS)
Rafael has published several journal and magazine articles about openACS/dotLRN:
- Calvo R.A. and R. Ellis. dotLRN: Herramienta de gestion de la Ensenanza. Revista IRICE N° 17, 2003 pg 143-50 PDF
- R. A. Calvo, E. Ghiglione and R. Ellis The OpenACS e-learning infrastructure. AusWEB 2003. Sunshine Coast Australia.(To appear) , Proceedings
- R. Calvo, J. Sabino, R. Ellis OpenACES: the open source solution to e-learning. Moving Online II, September 2001, Gold Coast. Australia. PDF
- R.A. Calvo and M. Aufflick. The openACS e-commerce solution. System Administration Magazine. February 2003
