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Product sheet: .LRN 2.1.1
- LMS name: .LRN
- Brief description: .LRN provides a complete portal framework along with out-of-the-box capability for course management, online communities, content management, and learning management. Originally developed at MIT (Massachusets Institute of Technology, USA), .LRN today is used by nearly half a million users in more than eighteen countries worldwide. The .LRN application suite is backed by a thriving user community and by the .LRN Consortium. Consortium member institutions work together to support each other's deployments and to accelerate and expand the adoption and development of .LRN. To this end, the Consortium ensures software quality by certifying components as .LRN-compliant, coordinates software development plans, and maintains ties with OpenACS, the open source toolkit which forms the basis for .LRN.
- Link to the official project page: http://www.dotlrn.org/
- Evaluation date: 2005/07/21
| Technical sheet |
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| Product name |
.LRN |
| Development team |
.LRN was originally developed at MIT
(Massachusets Institute of Technology, USA). Software development and
quality assurance and certification is nowadays coordinated by .LRN
Consortium, a tax-exempt, not-for-profit corporation. Member
institutions collectively set priorities but also provide cash or
in-kind contributions, based on their own choosing, towards consortium
operations and goals. List of Consortium members at http://www.dotlrn.org/about-us/ |
| Support team |
Users and developers meet face to face periodically. Users can register at http://www.dotlrn.org/register/ and participate in online and blended learning discussions or more technical forum. |
| Version number of
latest
release |
2.1.1 |
| Technology used | .LRN is based on Open ACS (Open Architecture
Community System - a toolkit for building scalable, community-oriented
web applications) which relies on AOLserver. |
| Operating Systems supported |
Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X,
Netware
and other system that supports PHP.
|
| Database/software requirements |
OpenACS is designed for a Unix-like system. It is developed primarily in Linux. It can be run on Mac OS X, and in Windows within VMWare. |
| License type |
GPL |
| E-Learning standards supported | .LRN compatible code is also available which utilizes various components based on IMS and SCORM standards. |
| Languages available |
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| Main features |
.LRN provides a complete portal framework along
with out-of-the-box capability for course management, online
communities, content management, and learning management. The .LRN
software development process follows two stages. At the first stage,
components are made available by the community and released as ".LRN
compatible". .LRN compatible code is shared by individual developers
and organizations in the spirit of collaboration but is in various
degrees of readiness. At the second stage, the .LRN consortium releases
components as ".LRN certified" after a thorough code review process. To
provide an additional level of quality assurance, ".LRN certified" code
is released only after it is running stably in a production setting at
a consortium member site. Finally, the .LRN consortium members commit
to pool resources to keep .LRN certified code bug free, stable, and
scalable for its member institutions. |
| Is a course content management included? |
Yes. |
| Positive aspects |
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| Aspects to be improved |
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| Main installations in the world |
MIT Sloan, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, University of Bergen, University of Heidelberg, University of Valencia, UCLA School of Medicine and Galileo University among others http://www.dotlrn.org/partners/. See also recent case studies at http://www.dotlrn.org/case-study/ . |
| Installations in Spain |
UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Universitat de València. |
| Notes | .LRN is a widely adopted enterprise-class
open-source software for supporting learning and research. Consortium
coordinates software development, ensures a reliable release process
and supports quality assurance and certification. |
| Link to demo version |
http://www.dotlrn.org/register/ |
Last modified
2005-07-22 11:23 AM
