Oops, that should have been Utah State as developers of Educommons.
J
On 10 Jun 2006, at 12:58, John Norman wrote:
> Unless things have changed recently, MIT Open CourseWare is not
> using Educommons. Rather, Educommons was created by Ohio State (?)
> to offer a service comparable to MIT OCW. I believe MIT OCW is
> custom code based on MS Content Management Server.
>
> I also believe some places have extended DSpace metadata to include
> Learning Object Metadata, at which point it becomes a learning
> object repository, but without all of the features of Intralibrary
> or all of the published web interface features of Educommons and
> MIT OCW.
>
> Finally, our very limited experience with Plone is that it may not
> scale well beyond 2,000 or so users. I hope someone will correct me
> if I have that wrong.
>
> John
>
> On 9 Jun 2006, at 15:50, Melanie Bates wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> Has anyone had experience of the open source 'Railroad
>> Repository' ( http://infrae.com/products/railroad ) software and
>> associated 'Plone' ( http://plone.org ) CMS, of which educommons
>> (http://plone.org/products/educommons) is an Add-on? We have
>> dSpace as our Institutional Repository and would ideally like to
>> use an OAI-PMH compatible repository for our teaching and learning
>> content too. The 'Educommons', which is the system that MIT use
>> for their Open Courseware Initiative, seems to be a good delivery
>> platform but does anyone have any experience of using it with a
>> repository back end? Railroad seems to tick all the boxes, but
>> it's the first time I've come across it?
>>
>> Any experience people have of any of these things would be great
>> to know about.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Melanie
>>
>> --
>> Melanie Bates
>> Learning Technology Co-ordinator
>> engCETL
>> Loughborough University
>> --
>> Rights and Rewards project
>> http://rightsandrewards.lboro.ac.uk
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