.LRN ('Dot-Learn') consortium formed

[Posted October 13, 2004 by corbet]

Several universities (including MIT, Heidelberg University, and the University of Sydney) have gotten together and announced the formation of the .LRN Consortium, which is dedicated to the development of open source educational software. More information is available at dotlrn.org.

.LRN ('Dot-Learn') consortium formed

Posted Oct 13, 2004 16:37 UTC (Wed) by xtifr (guest, #143) [Link]

Just to be clear: this seems to be a consortium to support and promote a particular suite of open source educational software:

".LRN is an open source application suite for learning and research communities."

Not that this is a bad thing (in fact, it's an excellent thing), but the article summary kind of gave me the impression that this was about open source educational software in general - it's not.

.LRN ('Dot-Learn') consortium formed

Posted Oct 13, 2004 16:55 UTC (Wed) by scripter (subscriber, #2654) [Link]

Sounds interesting -- but it didn't look like it supports any kind of exam module. What other OSS systems like .LRN are currently viable?

.LRN ('Dot-Learn') consortium formed

Posted Oct 13, 2004 19:18 UTC (Wed) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link] (1 responses)

.LRN is OpenACS, which really is pretty cool. I spent many a long weekend fiddling with OpenACS because I thought it might be the holy grail of what
could end up being /the/ workflow management system. It is really neat.

tcl was just too much for my poor head.

.LRN ('Dot-Learn') consortium formed

Posted Oct 14, 2004 7:59 UTC (Thu) by davidw (guest, #947) [Link]

Tcl is brilliantly simple

Everything is a command, including if, while and all the rest.

What don't you get about it? There are lots of friendly people in the Tcl comunity available to help!