[Building Sakai] Moodle export/import suitability for Sakai 3

[John Norman]

Sean set me on a different line of thinking. Who would we be building  
export/import for?

Institution:
- as part of a year to year migration (export key elements from this  
years course and reimport them to set up the outline of next years  
course). This feels like we could/should handle it better with some  
other solution
- as part of a migration from one system to another. In this case we  
care about matching to the other system. This was in my mind when I  
suggested we should look at Moodle, Bb and CC formats
- as part of a sharing initiative. Something like opencourseware, but  
where the intent is that the visitor can download and use the course  
in their system

Publisher:
- as a way of publishing a 'pre-canned' course to multiple  
institutions running multiple systems (our interest is primarily  
import, but see below)
Individual
- as a way of 'taking their course with them' as they move from  
institution to institution
- as a way of 'adopting' a course created by someone else at a  
different institution (here the individual sharing is in a similar  
position to the publisher above)

Other???

It strikes me that the amount and nature of what needs to move changes  
according to circumstance. It might be worth describing which  
scenarios we feel it is important to support.

John

On 17 Sep 2009, at 07:26, John Norman wrote:

> Several thoughts here. You don't say so, but I hope we are talking  
> about Moodle as an export option (alongside IMS Course Cartridge and  
> Native). I would hate to think we would loose information  
> transferring from one Sakai to another because we use an export  
> format that does not contain all of our concepts. Then in  
> contemplating secondary formats for interchange with other systems,  
> we need to consider how stable/how fast they change and the  
> maintenance burden.
>
> I suspect it would be a lot of work, but it would be great to have a  
> comparison that compared Bb export formats with Moodle with CC. I  
> wonder if the IMS folk have this..?
>
> John
>
> On 16 Sep 2009, at 21:35, Speelmon, Lance Day wrote:
>
>> I could use a second pair of eyes on the Moodle backup format.  I  
>> managed to get the latest build of Moodle up and running and then  
>> created a sample backup zip file.  We are trying to determine  
>> suitability of their format as an export/import format for Sakai  
>> 3.  Grab the sample below and provide any feedback you have on the  
>> wiki page.  Thanks, L
>>
>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org//x/ERLtAw
>>
>>
>> Lance Speelmon
>> Scholarly Technologist
>>
>> On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:53 PM, Speelmon, Lance Day wrote:
>>
>>> As we prepare to start working on a Sakai 2 -> Sakai 3 migration  
>>> effort, I would like to help organize community contributions.   
>>> There are a number of roles and skills that need to be filled and  
>>> your participation would be highly valued.
>>>
>>> What can be done immediately:
>>>
>>> 1) Collaborate on defining the migration project plan.
>>> 2) Investigate LTI as an underlying mechanism for exposing Sakai 2  
>>> tools within the Saki 3 portal.
>>> 3) Investigate Moodle's export/import architecture and file formats.
>>> 4) Develop a Sakai 2 Resources (i.e. ContentHosting) to Sakai 3  
>>> JCR data conversion.
>>>
>>> If any of these tasks sound interesting or you have other ideas  
>>> you would like to share, please use the wiki space below.  Please  
>>> take the time to declare your area of interest on the Contributors  
>>> page.
>>>
>>> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/KERNDOC/Migration
>>>
>>> Thanks!  L
>>>
>>>
>>> Lance Speelmon
>>> Scholarly Technologist
>>>
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