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Ridiculously Easy and Inexpensive Course Hosting Will Never Fly

Brian Lamb nails it. "This approach is fatally flawed in a number of respects and it will never catch on. For one thing, it is far too cheap, and can never justify escalating technology infrastructure budgets. Worse, instructors and students could adopt this technology with minimal assistance or oversight from instructional technology specialists." Meanwhile, I wanted to comment to David Wiley, but couldn't because his comment system won't let me log in, that he should get in touch with Tony Hirst, which is also doing interesting work with the RSS delivery of online course materials. Brian Lamb, abject learning, February 15, 2008. [Link] [Tags: , , ] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Ridiculously Easy and Inexpensive Course Hosting Will Never Fly

Weaver, February 17, 2008

" Meanwhile, I wanted to comment to David Wiley, but couldn't because his comment system won't let me log in,"

From past association, I recall that David Wiley is generally not open to opinions that aren't, at least, supportive of his own.

Much better if they are his being repeated back to him so he can hear how good they sound - at least in his ears.

No definition of poverty so complete as that of a closed mind. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Ridiculously Easy and Inexpensive Course Hosting Will Never Fly

Anymouse, February 17, 2008

Hi Stephen,

I am a bit surprised that David did not mention in his post that the United Nations University has been building courses in Wordpress for quite some time now. In fact, we have adopted it for our main website at the UNU Media Studio (http://www.mediastudio.unu.edu). The Media Studio site has a customized polyglot plug-in that makes it easier to build multi-lingual websites.

We have three courses in Wordpress that were published in early 2007. Here is one one - http://eia.unu.edu/course/?page_id=173
The best part is that you can download the entire course module, import it into your own wordpress or just run it locally without the database.

Brendan Barrett
UNU Media Studio [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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