Course management technology and standards

This is a collection of links to course management technology and standards that we’ve come across in the UCLA Course Management Consortium.

Assessment Engines (Quiz Tools/Online Exams) http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/assessment-engines-quiz-toolsonline-exams

Campus Data Warehouse (UCLA) http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/campus-data-warehouse

CDL (Calif. Digital Library) Common Framework http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/common_framework/index.html

Digital Learning Objects (also see SCORM) http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/digital-learning-objects-or-scorm

Digitization http://www.researchbuzz.org/2005/12/wiki_for_digitization_issues.shtml

Dokeos http://www.dokeos.com/ Dokeos is an Open Source elearning and course management web application translated in 31 languages and helping more than 1.000 organisations worldwide to manage learning and collaboration activities.

DSpace http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/print_version/atwood1202.asp

eduPerson is an LDAP object class that includes widely-used person attributes in higher education http://www.educause.edu/eduperson/

Hibernate [Criteria Queries in Hibernate:http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/07/19/Hibernate.html] James Elliot shows you how to use simple criteria and compound criteria, apply criteria to associations, and query by example using Hibernate, in this excerpt (in PDF format) from Hibernate: A Developer’s Notebook. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hibernate/

iFrames http://www.trans4mind.com/personal_development/HTMLGuide/iframes.htm

IMS The IMS Abstract Framework has been published at http://www.imsglobal.org/af/index.cfm The Abstract Framework describes the general architectural assumptions that underlie IMS specifications and other technical documents. This is a living document which is likely to evolve and be extended to include areas not covered in the current version. Fred Beshears fmb@SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU 17 Oct 2003
- [The highest level “formal” metadata document is here:http://www.imsglobal.org/metadata/imsmdv1p2p1/imsmd_infov1p2p1.html]

IOC – Inversion of Control http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/ioc—-inversion-of-control

Java Server Faces (JSF) Mark Norton came across a very handy web page which documents all of the standard JSF tags and includes examples in XML and graphics. http://www.horstmann.com/corejsf/jsf-tags.html

JSR223 Scripting Pages in Java Web Applications http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/jsr223-scripting-pages-in-java-web-applications

LAMS Learning Activity Management System http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/lams-learning-activity-management-system

Lucene – Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/

MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education)
- courseID:http://middleware.internet2.edu/courseID/ -course data elements project, exists to further the development of course data elements for higher education and adapt exisiting development for use in directory enabled infrastructures. This project will leverage the eduPerson object class (http://www.educause.edu/eduperson/) that includes widely-used person attributes in higher education and build on the standards work in IMS and OKI.