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.

• .LRN http://dotlrn.org/ Learn, Research, Network

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

• Breeze – Macromedia http://www.macromedia.com/go/breeze_edu_pilot

• 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/kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/dokeos 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

• eduCourse http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/educourse

• eduPerson is an LDAP object class that includes widely-used person attributes in higher education http://www.educause.kb.ucla.edu/eduperson/articles/view/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/kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/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.cfmkb.ucla.edu/articles/view/ims 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]

• Internet2 Instant Messaging http://middleware.internet2.edu/i2im/

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

• ISIS – UCLA
  • GettingStartedWithIsis

• 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.htmlkb.ucla.edu/articles/view/java-server-faces

• JSR168 Portlet Spec http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/jsr168-portlet-spec

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

• Kerberos http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/kerberos

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

• LON-CAPA http://www.lon-capa.org/

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

• MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education)
  • courseID:
    http://middleware.internet2.kb.ucla.edu/courseID/articles/view/mace -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.

• Microsoft Passport – Risks Analysis http://avirubin.com/passport.html

• MIT’s CADDIE Portal http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/mits-caddie-portal

• OKI http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/oki

• OpenACS http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/openacs-open-community-architecture-system

• OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html

• PHP http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/php

• pubcookie open-source software for intra-institutional web authentication http://www.pubcookie.org/kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/pubcookie

• Quiz Tools – see Assessment Engines at top of this list

• REST http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/rest

• RSF Framework http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/rsf-framework

• RSS (Really Simple Syndication) http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/rss-really-simple-syndication

• SAKAI http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/sakai

• SAML http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/saml

• SCORM http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/scorm

• Shibboleth http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/shibboleth

• Signet http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/signet

• Slide http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/slide—-aka-jakarta-slide

• SOAP http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/soap

• SPML http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/spml

• uPortal http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/uportal

• WebDAV http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/webdav

• Web Services http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/web-services

• Webdisk File Storage http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/webdisk-file-storage

• WSDL http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/wsdl

• WSRP http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/wsrp

• WS-Security http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/ws-security

• XACML http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/xacml

• XBEL The XML Bookmark Exchange Language http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/xbel/

• XML http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/xml

• XML and Java http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/xml-and-java

• XML and PHP http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/xml-and-php

• XML and Python http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/view/xml-and-python

• XML-RPC http://www.xmlrpc.com/