Education Commons News

In the first month of existence since the site went live, Education Commons has hosted a number of developments that may be of keen interest to the community.

Here are a selected stories of note:

1. Sun and Unicon Partner to offer Free Trial of Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment and Hosted Services:
http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37...

2. Service Oriented Architecture Discussion for Higher Education:
A kickoff workshop to build knowledge and make a start on a conceptual
framework was held during March 20-24, 2006, in Vancouver, British
Columbia. The documentation
and community are here:
http://educationcommons.org/projects/display/SOA/Home

3. Moodle : We are hosting a test instance of the Moodle environment
http://educationcommons.org/projects/display/Moodle/Home

4. The Open University of Catalunya has posted their community of interest
around the Virtual Campus Platform:
http://educationcommons.org/projects/display/Catalunya/Universitat+Obert...

5. Georgetown University Center for Scholarly Information Systems:
http://educationcommons.org/projects/display/Georgetown/Home

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http://www.educationcommons.org/