SIGOSSEE / JOIN News

SIGOSEE meeting in Barcelona

The next meeting of the SIGOSEE project is in Barcelona on 1 and 2 November. The first day will be given over to developments in the Special Interest Group and the second day will feature a public seminar on Open Content and Open Source. The meeting is being held together with the JOIN project and the Sixth Framework UNFOLD project, which is developintg a community around the Learning Design Standard. As always everone is welcome to the meeting.

Why should institutions apply Open Source Virtual Learning Environments

Fred de Vries of the Open University of the Netherlands wrote a small paper on the use of Open Source VLE's as a result of recent discussion in projects he is involved in. Please feel free to comment.

New paper

Raymond Elferink, Dai Griffiths and Sara Zondergeld have created an article called: 'Comparing Software Development Models: Structural Problems in the Cathedral and Bazaar metaphors.' It is a first product of the Working group on Organisation and management issues, sustainability and support infrastuctural needs for OSS.

New study on the Sustainability of e-learning

Graham Attwell has produced an extensive study on the Sustainability of e-learning. Produced in conjunction with the Lefo project, which is associated with Sigossee, the paper explores Open Source and Open Content as part of an overall strategy for the sustainability of e-learning. The paper can be downloaded from the resources section or lick on the link in more below.