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Hi all, I think that everyone posting in this section might find the new Open Academic website interesting. Essentially, the project will seek to integrate Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. All code developed under this project will be released back to the respective communities under an open sou...

Hi Amy,

You may want to take a look at a discussion of the report at the Inside Higher Education website:

http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/03/01/open

The debate is perhaps as interesting as the report findings!

Brendan

Hi Brian and Amy, Sorry I was out of circulation for a while - enjoying the Cherry Blossoms here in Tokyo!!! Nobody works in Japan at this time of year. I have shared the link to Brian's CD demos with other members of the team here in the Media Studio. This looks really exciting and I hope we can pu...

Perhaps we can explore how to link in these open source software tools to the open content/open educational resources movement. There is certainly a lot that the OER movement can learn from the OSS movement. I am currently participating in a debate organised by UNESCO on how to promote OERs - there ...

Hi Amy,

Thanks for suggesting that my post be moved to the education. I think it fits better here and hope that more people will look at it and perhaps what we are doing in Tokyo and give us some friendly advice.

Brendan
UNU Media Studio

Here at the United Nations University in Tokyo, we just switched our online learning website to Joomla and we are really happy with how it is going. In fact, we have started thinking that maybe we could start building elearning modules using Joomla as well. For instance, last year we built something...