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More OSS Community Research

In the recent posts that have been going around about research on open source software communities, I haven’t seen anyone point to the motherlode yet.. “MIT’s Free / Open Source Research Community”: It’s filled with good papers (including some graduate…

The Use is the Context

So “D’Arcy”:, “Brian”:, and “Alan”: have been talking about using Trackback to contextualize learning objects. This is truly excellent! One of the goals of the “Instructional Architect”: was to facilitate automated recommendations (aka collaborative filtering) of learning objects, i.e., “people…

Will the “real” community please stand up?

Something Stephen said in a recent post has had me thinking quite a bit lately (and I’m too lazy to go find the post again now, doubtless someone will point it out in the comments). Stephen commented that he was…

.LRN Up

I’ve gotten “.LRN”: (MIT’s open source LMS) up and running, and I must say that I’m impressed. Out of the box, it supports “a lot” of what a normal thinking person would want to do. Being open source (based on…