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Scalable Innovation in Collaborative Education Technology with .LRN

Session Details

Thursday, October 21, 2004
4:55 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.
Exhibit Hall A, Table 06

Session Type: Poster Session - Emerging Technologies

Speaker(s)

Alfred H. Essa, Associate Vice Chancellor & Deputy CIO, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Abstract

.LRN is the world's largest and most successful open-source project for scalable innovation in collaborative education technology. Now in use by nearly a quarter million people at over two dozen universities on five continents, and ten years in development, this application suite and development framework has been used as the basis for a number of very interesting innovations by a number of prominent institutions, including complex multi-player simulations and aggregation and syndication of educational content via IMS/SCORM support. This session will introduce .LRN, present recent developments such as the launch of version 2.1 and the formation of the .LRN Consortium, and discuss case studies at MIT Sloan, Univ. of Heidelberg, the European Union's E-Lane

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