Open source CMS article

Pam Atkins

9 February, 2004

This site might be of interest to any educators who are currently focussed on the effective transmission of information across the web.

If you don't recognise the acronym 'content management systems' (CMS) or are not sure about what open source is, then this recent Australian article might be able to fill you in.

If you already have an interest in these fields, then the web site hosting this article is a great launch pad to find out about dynamic web sites and usability.

There are links to sites which follow the CMS industry. I have been following them for 30 minutes now and could continue for many hours.

Comments:

13 February, 2004

John Perry

The relationship between CMS and LMS (Learning Management System) is difficult to distinguish in my opinion. In fact, education institutions yet to implement an LMS would be wise to look at CMS frameworks that incorporate the core elements of an LMS as pluggable modules. Open Source or otherwise, CMS has a wider platform for utilization, beyond that of education applications. This means that the development and refinement of feature may be more rapid.

Added to this is, if a good CMS framework is chosen, the job of incorporating unique feature set into the environment would not be beyond your own internal technical staff.

http://www.grossmont.k12.ca.us/mcdowell/et650/index.html

The above link is a comparison between a generic Open Source CMS called postnuke against a formidable commercial opponent called blackboard. Postnuke is one of the better CMS frameworks, not in function or efficiency, but in pure ease of programming extension to it.