Strategy.

Given our scarceness of resources, it is important that we build on the work of others. The Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) provides a model and Java interfaces for nearly all of the relevant services. There are six implementations of OKI in various stages of completion and availability:

• CourseWork at Stanford (already available for download as of now 8/19/03)
• KnowledgeStar (a.k.a., Stellar) at MIT (to be available in September 2003)
• CHEF at Univ. of Mich. (operational as of now but download status is currently unknown by me). CHEF is not really part of the OKI master project.
• CARET (University of Cambridge)
• VUE (Tufts University)
• Oncourse (Indiana University)

BlackBoard claims that it will embrace OKI, but I don't know the status of that activity.

According to the timeline for OKI,^2.16 the project should be entering the dissemination phase (i.e., Phase 2) and they should welcome our adoption and participation.