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Today y learned about the not that new eduCommons platform to implement  open course ware at your very own school (hey anyone at ITESM reading this ?)

I’m personally interested in this platform because it can help leverage the development activites around the courseware we need at the Ukini project. And besides, everyschool should be implementing an opencourse ware initative, and this guys help you out with the IT drama.

Great work guys !

I’ll test it hack a little bit and let you know my opinion. Now if by any means we don’t use it at Ukini, it doesn’t mean its not a great solution, its only that ukini involves a great deal of complexity just by making several interfaces between knowledge bases, learning management systems and community portals.

any ways, get you fresh copy at http://cosl.usu.edu/projects/educommons/releases/2.2.0 Here is a list of what is new in this release:

• Many front end UI Enhancements
• Auto-citation generation (from metadata) displayed inline with documents and included in skinless content. Simplify conformance with Attribution terms of Creative Commons licenses for those who build derivative works.
• Social Bookmarking Dropdown. Help users bookmark and later find OERs hosted in eduCommons using popular social bookmarking services.
• Expanded support for IMS Content Packaging, including a transform engine that can translate from popular IMS CP formats to and from eduCommons.
• Updated internationalization support, with translation updates for a predetermined set of languages.
• Support for content translation using the LinguaPlone product.

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