Digressing temporarily from philosophy, the gratis / libre debate, and the pros and cons of each approach, this post will focus on the range of tools that you need to develop e-learning content in a (relatively) open environment
The key to developing courseware in an open environment is to use a production model that liberates instructional [...]
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Tools for creating e-learning in an open (XML) environment
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: ISD · content development · e-learning development · e-learning industry · open e-learning environment · organizational development · organizational style
E-Learning, the Cathedral and the Bazaar: software development approaches
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
…or Top-down versus Bottom-up approaches to software design.
In his 1997 essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar, open source evangelist Eric S. Raymond suggests
the closed-source world cannot win an evolutionary arms race with open-source communities that can put orders of magnitude more skilled time into a problem.
Raymond considers the development of software by traditional methodologies to [...]
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