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Blackboard

Posted March 2, 2004 by Jon Dron

Home of the Blackboard MLE – big, well-supported but pedagogically unsound and overpriced
Created:Tue, 02 Mar 2004 18:09:40 GMT


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CHEF

Posted March 2, 2004 by Jon Dron

CompreHensive Collaborative Framework, some interesting parallels with ILIAS but greatly strengthened by being part of the OKI initiative
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OKI homepage

Posted March 2, 2004 by Jon Dron

Home of the Open Knowledge Initiative at MIT
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CoFIND home page

Posted March 2, 2004 by Jon Dron

The home of the software used to run this site, a self-organising resource base. Includes the latest downloadable version with installer script for any server running PHP and MySQL
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ALT-J

Posted March 2, 2004 by Jon Dron

Journal of the Association for Learning Technologies (UK)
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Lotus LearningSpace

Posted March 2, 2004 by Jon Dron

Large, expensive, comprehensive and well supported learning environment based on Lotus Domino
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