Barbara Kurshan's Blog

Partners

As we develop the new website for GELC, I realize that many others are doing parts of what we want to do. I am excited by what I see at xWiki, Connexions, EduCommons, Moodle, Wikipedia, Jotspot, Pandesa and others.
So what other websites would be good models for GELC or would make good partners.
Who is a good partner for GELC? Basically, someone that adds some neat technology to collaborative curriculum development, adds curriculum to the repository and/or provides development expertise.
I amn developing a scorecard for selecting and identifying new parnters and would appreciate your help. Any suggestions? Let me know the URL and your reasons why you think this has partner potential.

Comments

• Bobbi,I get the feeling that we're not quite asking the right question... I doubt that many educators care one way or the other about whether or not their solutions are implemented in Java (education is the focus)... Whereas the java.net GELC community is commited to Java (Java is the focus).I doesn't seem likely that a Java-centric community would be the at the heart of an educational ecosystem... More likely the tools that are implemented in Java would have to conform to standards set by the educational ecosystem.Does that make sense?-JohnR

  Posted by: johnreynolds on July 28, 2006 at 07:42 AM

• Java is certainly not the primary community to drive open source curricula. The community includes both types of developers - programmers and educators. We are hoping to build a community that promotes projects that bring multiple audiences to the table. The right question might be "What is the new paradigm for building, implementing and evaluating open source curricula?
  

  Posted by: bkurshan on August 14, 2006 at 01:02 PM

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