sakai, moodle, and educational metadata

I think I had an action a while ago (which we implicitly withdrew
by not carrying it forward) to give pointers to some educational
metadata thingies.

I was just reading about the sakai project...
http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php? 
option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=208

and it says "powered by mambo"

which reminds me of Moodle...

"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source  
software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help  
educators create effective online learning communities."
http://moodle.org/
see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle

hmm... that links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth auth,  
which, I gather,
is in the same design space as SAML and OpenID; I hope to learn more  
about
the similarities and differences... but that's another story.


-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Received on Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:42:08 UTC