K12> MIT DEVELOPS, GIVES AWAY, DISTANCE-ED SOFTWARE

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Date:         Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:53:42 EST
From:         Bonnie Bracey <BBracey@xxxxxxx>
Subject:      MIT DEVELOPS, GIVES AWAY, DISTANCE-ED SOFTWARE
To:           K12ADMIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has built a
portal-development application designed to help institutions set up and
manage distance-education programs. Called Caddie.net, the software,
which can be downloaded free, allows users to build various portals for
the different aspects of a distance-education program. Portals can be
built, for example, for registration, course management, or online
testing.

Sean M. Rowland of Hibernia College in Ireland, which has been
using a similar tool from MIT for some time, compared the application
to those sold by Blackboard or WebCT. "For me," said Rowland, "it's
Blackboard that you can control yourself."
Caddie.net

Welcome to the CADDIE.NET Course Server Portal, the Home for your course web
site. This site serves as the hub application for information exchange. It
provides online news, event and course information, along with interactive
discussion forums and students contact information. In a nutshell, everything 
needed
to maintain and run the fast-growing course site.
Developed to be highly scalable across institutions and countries, it can
support an unlimited number of courses and students. The CADDIE Collaborative
Architectures for a Distributed Instructional Environment is designed to take
advantage of the wide range of collaboration technology available on today's
highly calable Web Platforms, including messenger, voice over IP and real time 
and
streaming video.
Feel free to browse the site and explore. Sign in to obtain edit access to
different modules within the portal, as well as view the restricted sections of
the site.




http://ken.mit.edu/DevShell/desktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=301

Last year MIT launched its
OpenCourseWare project, which offers free, online access to the course
materials for more than 500 MIT courses. Richard C. Larson, a professor
of electrical engineering at MIT, described the Caddie.net project as
being "very much in the spirit of MIT OpenCourseWare."
Chronicle of Higher Education, 24 March 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/03/2004032407n.htm

Bonnie Bracey
bbracey@xxxxxxx

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