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June 20, 2006
Ohio OSPILOT Update (with an Emphasis on ePortfolios)
I just participated in TeachU’s Online Seminar titled “Ohio OSPILOT Update (with an Emphasis on ePortfolios)" presented by Dr. Scott Siddall, Assistant Provost and Director of Instructional Technology, Denison University.
Siddall began by giving an overview of OLN's Open Source Pilot, which hosts Sakai, Moodle, OSP ePortfolio, and uPortal for 21 member institutions. We should be providing a similar service for educational institutions in Illinois!
My reflections from today’s presentation:
It appears that the user interface of OSP has improved in version 2.1 . I played around with an earlier version last year and found it difficult to navigate. I should give this new version another look.
The new version of OSP is a toolset of Sakai. I think this means that you need to install Sakai to run OSP. However, one of the participants in today’s presentation said that you can hide the CMS aspects of Sakai is you want.
A big issue for OSP, and all other ePortfolio systems (TaskStream, LiveText, etc.) is the transportability of an ePortfolio from one system to another. Siddall said today that OSP has not figured out how to easily and import other ePortfolios (e.g. LiveText and TaskStream) into OSP or to export an OSP ePortfolio into another system.
Posted by mlindema at June 20, 2006 11:22 AM