Connexions, Rhaptos, Plone

Connexions, Rhaptos, and Plone each look like something to explore in more detail. But first, here are just a few words on each, given in the order that I stumbled upon them (because Connexions is built on Rhaptos which is built with Plone).

My first encounter was this 19 minute TED Talk on Connexions given by Richard Baraniuk. (Sidenote: I recommend the Ted Talks highly.)

Connexions is a collection of “knowledge chunks” freely available to anyone. At first glance it looks a bit like Merlot, but adds more as it allows students or teachers to actually pull together different chunks into their own course structure.

Connexions is built on Rhaptos, an “educational content management system”. The software was developed specifically for Connexions, but is also freely available for download for those who wish to build their own content repository.

And finally, Rhaptos is built on Plone, a CMS that is relatively simple to use, also available for download (open source distributed under the GNU GPL license).

So many goodies, so little time…

Content Management for Higher Education

D’autres se posent la question “comment gérer tous ces trucs?”. La GMW, Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft, a annoncé un “call for papers” pour une publication sur le content management dans les hautes écoles.

Des infos:
http://www.gmw-online.de/ag/cms/cms.html

Extrait du GMW-Newsletter Herbst 2005:

QMind – Collobarative eLearning Development System

“It can be hard to be on the leading edge of a new category. Not quite an authoring system, not quite a content management system, QMIND is an “eLearning design collaboration platform.” I viewed an impressive demo recently that show how distributed project teams can author in storyboards, port directly into Flash templates, manage QA, and in fact manage every specific development task required. Definitely check this out if you have work on large projects, large teams, or a distributed work environment.”

from Kevin Kruse: elearning-guru.com