Eduforge: eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project)

The eXe team is now using blogger to post news and information about the development of eXe. Our new blog can be found at http://exelearning.blogspot.com and contains posts about new releases and our nightly builds as well as How-Tos on aspects of authoring with eXe.

Posted by brent simpson in Eduforge: eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project) at 12:45

Thursday, May 11. 2006

eXe team available on IRC

The eXe team is now frequently on IRC @ irc.freenode.net #exe where we can answer support questions from users and help developers who might be interested in the eXe code. For information on how to get onto IRC please see: Chat with Developers on our wiki. We have also installed a web interface to IRC which you can access here: http://exelearning.org/cgi-bin/irc.cgi

Please remember that we're located in New Zealand and more often than not while you're wide awake, we're fast asleep. Here's the current time in Auckland: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=22

Posted by brent simpson in Eduforge: eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project) at 13:13

Monday, February 13. 2006

eXe release 0.13

Version 0.13 of the eLearning XHTML editor project is now available and includes the following changes:

Image Magnifier iDevice
Gallery iDevice - Interface improvements
Cloze iDevice - New features
Reading Activity - Feedback buttons
Editor - Character map button, Font Size

The Image Magnifier iDevice was created by Bruce Webster Interact
& Multimedia Developer for the Christchurch College of Education,
New Zealand. It allows an author to upload an image which is then
loaded into a flash 'player'. The resultant flash object allows the
user to magnify parts of the image and, depending on the original image
size, zoom in for greater detail. Other modifications include the
addition of a character map button for the TinyMCE editor, and the
ability to set font sizes through the editor. Many small interface
improvements have been made to to the eXe interface itself and to the
styles for export.

You can download version 0.13 @ Eduforge

or visit our main site @ http://exelearning.org/

Posted by brent simpson in Eduforge: eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project) at 09:22 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, October 12. 2004

Report from E-Fest, Wellington 11-12 October

Have spent a couple of days at e-Fest in Wellington. Some
notes on the keynotes and speakers I attended can be found on my
work blog @ : http://blog.cfdl.auckland.ac.nz/brent/
. Interest in eXe is high and we're hoping to make an early
release in the coming months.

Posted by brent simpson in Eduforge: eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project) at 21:46 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday, September 13. 2004

Enhancing pedagogy through the semantic web

Rob Koper of from the Educational
Technology Expertise Center at the Open University of the Netherlands makes a
very good point in his recent paper exploring the educational
potential of the Semantic Web (see Use of the
Semantic Web to Solve Some Basic Problems in Education).
Rob says:

"The usefulness of any technology in any field is dependent on
its capacity to address real problems and address practical
needs".

This encapsulates the vision of the eXe project.
We would like to develop a tool that will enable teachers and
lecturers to publish professional looking web content that
recognises the unique structural and presentational requirements of
educational content. Moreover, we would like to provide users with
the flexibility to generate their own “instructional devices”
without compromising the advantages of automatically recording of
the contextual structure of customised pedagogical
templates.

In this way we hope that the eXe project will
contribute to one of Rob’s aims associated with the Educational
Semantic Web, namely to help staff to perform “some of their tasks
in flexible and online educational settings more
efficiently”.

Rob provides an insightful summary of how
different technologies of the Semantic Web might add considerable
value to the generic objectives of education and are well worth
exploring – especially in the light of the pioneering work of the
Dutch Open University with Educational Modelling Language (EML) and
its subsequent inclusion into the IMS Learning
Design Specification.

While the eXe project is not directly focused on
the Learning Design Specification (as the project is more concerned
with the content packaging specification) we must recognise the
"educational semantic" of structured learning content. Consequently
the work of the Dutch Open University in this area is of great
interest for the eXe project.

Posted by Wayne Mackintosh in Eduforge: eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project) at 09:34 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, August 17. 2004

Novell and IBM to implement W3C's XForms in Mozilla

The Mozilla Foundation, in collaboration with Novell and IBM, has
announced the formation of a project to implement the W3C's XForms
1.0 Recommendation in Mozilla. XForms is the W3C's XML-based Web
forms technology. It offers many more features than standard HTML
forms, including support for input validation and integration with
Web services.

Mozilla Press Release here:

http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-08-10.html

Post and Discussion on MozillaZine, here:
http://www.mozillazine.org/

Posted by brent simpson in Eduforge: eXe (eLearning XHTML Editor Project) at 17:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Tuesday, August 10. 2004

Learning Management Systems: Are We There Yet?

Syllabus magazine has interviewed the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s
vice president for research in information technology about his
vision for learning management systems and related technologies.
Nice overview of the Sakai and OKI projects and the future of Open
Source systems for education.

Of particular note to the eXe project are his thoughts on the lack
of good content editors for LMS' "...there’s still much that can
be done to improve usability in particular, especially to make it
easier to publish or create new material. It still takes too much
expertise to create attractive materials from the notes, images,
and programs that faculty use to teach a course..." and "... I
think we need authoring tools that lower the effort threshold
dramatically for faculty to take digitized materials and create
something esthetically pleasing as well as effective for their
teaching purposes. There are tools, but we have to make sure that
they are going to be compatible with all of the other pieces that
we’re putting together based on standards."

read full
article

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