OldHawk777's Journal: New standards for sharing online education from MIT

One System Fits All
New standards will make sharing online education software easy and inexpensive.
By Sally Atwood, December 2003/January 2004, http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/atwood1203.asp

'At traditional universities such as MIT, more and more educators and administrators are using the term/phrase (Online Education) to describe something more comprehensive: the advent of Web-based learning-management systems. These software-based systems, also known as course management or virtual-learning systems, debuted about five years ago and are designed to leverage the Internet to reinforce what happens in brick-and-mortar classrooms.'

/. Questions: Is the web becoming an 'Open (Global/Virtual) Operating System'? Will/Does it provide U2U, B2B, C2C, E2E, ... features and applications at an Internet level similar to what an OS does on a computer? How do you define an OS ... by what it does or what it is? I expect the Kernel will remain at the computer level, but MS calls their GUI windows an OS ... ponder, ponder, ponder, confusion.

Open Knowledge Initiative [OKI] Collaborators
____ C1ambridge University
____ Dartmouth College
____ Indiana University
____ North Carolina State University
____ Stanford University
____ University of Michigan
____ University of Pennsylvania
____ University of Wisconsin-Madison

'Open-Source-Interface Definitions' you need to check the article on MIT's Technology Review

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