IMS and OKI, the Wire and the Socket
Wilbert Kraan,
CETIS,
Jul 17, 2003
Description of progress in MIT's Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI). It is important to recognize, reports the author, that OKI is not an open source learning environment. Nor is it even an architecture, though as the author note, OKI's layer-cake archietcture has become famous. Rather, the heart of OKI is a set of "OSIDs: definitions of particular slots in a computer program. In an application that allows you to do searches for learning objects in repositories, for example, the programmer can just say 'put the code that talks to the repository here' without actually having to program very much beyond calls to the list of commands that the OSID specifies." Cool stuff. Too bad so much of this work is happening behind closed doors; as the author notes, "the success of OKI depends almost entirely on the support it gets," and the more open the process, the more likely the support.
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