Upgrade of Eduforge.org

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Miles Berry forwarded this message:

Subject: Upgrade of Eduforge.org
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 12:25:21 +1200
From: Wyles, Richard

Eduforge (http://www.eduforge.org) has recently been upgraded with the help of the eXe Editor Project (http://www.exelearning.org).

Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for education. You are welcome to use our community resources or start your own project space. Registration is free. Eduforge offers a wide range of collaborative tools as well as project spaces for the development of educational software, content or to faciltate collaborative research and discussion.

Eduforge was founded in early 2004 as part of the New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment (NZOSVLE) project https://eduforge.org/projects/nzvle/ The NZOSVLE is a major collaborative education project funded by the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission, an arm of the NZ Government. The project's goals are to adopt and contribute to open source solutions for education. The consortium is composed of polytechnics, universities, and a private training organisations.

Part of the vision for Eduforge is to create an environment that is robust enough to support large scale collaborative software development, but friendly enough to be used by non-programmers who want to collaborate on a range of projects. Projects may include learning materials design, application testing, and research as well as contributing documentation, tutorials, and help files to software development projects.

In addition to reducing the economic and organisational barriers associated with large scale distributed collaboration, Eduforge is envisioned to reduce the technology usability barrier often confronted by non-ICT professionals. We've recently added Planet Eduforge, a blog aggregator at http://planet.eduforge.org and integrated a fully featured blogging tool.

Eduforge is developed using FOSS - GForge, Serendipity, and PHPWiki. While this started with somewhat of a NZ flavour due to the projects on it, the intent has always been a global shared resource. Recently we shifted the hosting to the US to improve latency for many of the interantional users. We would very much welcome participation - either in using the resources or in helping us develop the reources available on Eduforge. Or simply feedback, we're committed to continuous improvements.

regards

Richard Wyles

Richard Wyles
NZ Open Source Virtual Learning Environment Project
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Tel: 64 4 913 5987
Mailto:richard.wyles@openpolytechnic.ac.nz
http://www.openpolytechnic.ac.nz
http://www.eduforge.org
http://www.ose.org.nz