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Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: from this week's lwn]
Doug Loss wrote:
> Roger R Dingledine wrote:
>
> > Open Source in Education
> >
> > Intuitive Networks (WASHINGTON), a subsidiary of The George Washington University, introduced Prometheus, open source online
> > learning software. Prometheus is now or soon will be in use at many universities around North America including:
> > Columbia Business School in New York City.
> > Rochester Institute of Technology.
> > University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies.
> > The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
> >
>
> You can see Prometheus at <http://prometheus.com/index.html>. It is evidently intended for university use. On the website (and in
> Linux Weekly News) they mention that Prometheus is Open Source, but they never talk about licenses, never give a download site that
> I could find, and talk somewhat about "licensing" the software. So I'm unclear about just what the status of Prometheus is. I'm
> not persuaded that it's free software yet.
>
> > MIT Sloan School of Management will be using the open-source ArsDigita Community System for its online course management
> > application.
>
> You can see ArsDigita at <http://www.arsdigita.com/>. ArsDigita is downloadable (binaries for Solaris, W2K, and Win32 only, source
> for others), but seems to require an Oracle 8i RDBMS to run. It seems to be aimed mostly at businesses. I think Sloan is probably
> trying to bend it to fit their needs.
>
> --
> Doug Loss God is a comedian playing
> Data Network Coordinator to an audience too afraid
> Bloomsburg University to laugh.
> dloss@bloomu.edu Voltaire
Closely tied to arsdigita is http://www.openacs.org. It runs on most databases, The version I am currently working with uses
PostgreSQL. MySQL support is in the making. It supports plugin modules, one of which is an education module.
Michael Williams
Haywood County Schools
http://www.k12linux.org