Nice Mention of EDU 2.0 on TeachingHacks.com
EDU 2.0 got a nice mention on TeachingHacks.com today. Quentin asks an interesting question: "Is it a CMS, LMS, Social Network, RSS Aggregator - I’m not sure yet?"
The answer is that it's none of these things. As the introductory video mentions, EDU 2.0 is the first web-hosted education site to provide integrated support for teaching, learning, resources and community.
In order to to this, it includes features for CMS (allowing you to upload, edit and publish educational resources), LMS (learning management system for teaching classes), social networking (messaging, forums, blogs, podcasts, video clips, etc.), RSS aggregation (for supplying topic-specific news feeds), and a host of other stuff. However, I would not classify the site as a CMS, LMS, or any other feature Quentin lists.
It will be interesting to see if the integration of previously disjoint education features becomes a trend.
Graham,
Edu2.0 looks nice! My compliments on the design and simplicity.
I will kindly note you are not the only one, nor the first. Scholar360 has been around since mid 2005 and has had all these features since then. It's good to see others integrating these technologies though. It has always made good sense to us that these functions go well together.
Best wishes.
Paul
Posted by: paul | Jun 28, 2007 at 07:21 AM
Hi Paul,
Thanks for the heads-up. I just checked out your site and it looks nice also!
Cheers,
Graham
Posted by: Graham Glass | Jun 28, 2007 at 10:49 AM
Hi Graham,
Edu 2.0 is a powerfull tool, i've just posted about it in my portuguese blog. Check http://blog.joseoliveira.net/?p=94
Have you considered the use of other interface languages (like portuguese)?
Keep on the good work :)
Posted by: José Oliveira | Jul 02, 2007 at 04:25 PM
Hi Jose,
Thanks for your kind words! We plan on internationalizing our site for many languages once we've added a few more core features in English.
Cheers,
Graham
Posted by: Graham Glass | Jul 02, 2007 at 05:54 PM