DART: Organizational Interface with Future VLE?
June 5th, 2006I am fortunate enough to currently be involved in the design and construction of a new Open Source project called DART, or Data Analysis and Reporting Toolkit. What we have built into this system is pretty unique in my experience in education, but will be a small step toward a learner-centered ePortfolio system that interacts with both real world and school based learning.
The Bering Strait School District (BSSD) Curriculum & Instruction Department began work on DART about a year ago after identifying through focus groups our biggest barriers to making student progress information easy to track and use for instruction. Many of the key people on the project are contributors here on this blog, such as Rick Holt, and Greg Johnson from BSSD.
We are now almost ready to release DART to the public under a Creative Commons License or Open Source software license in about ten days or so. The DART project will be hosted on Eduforge.
DART is not an ePortfolio or “PLE” system, but will work with whatever ePortfolio we choose to track student progress on our district’s standards, as well as with our current Moodle server and curriclum content. We are working on implmenting a four-pronged relationship between DART, our iCommunity LMS (Moodle), our wiki-based curiculum system (OpenContent), and a web-based “Personalized Learning Environment” or “PLE” (Elgg).
