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We're currently building the Web Hub, Bates Social, Bates Voices, and Bates Updates programs.
We continue to improve Home 4, Bates Views, and Explore Bates.
Bates College is widely regarded as one of the finest U.S. liberal arts colleges.
Alumni frequently cite the capacities they developed at Bates for critical assessment, analysis, expression, aesthetic sensibility and independent thought.
Bates was founded in 1855 by Maine abolitionists, and Bates graduates have always included men and women from diverse racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds.
Bates' Web Communications staff, students, and colleagues are envisioning, architecting, and building next-generation Web experiences.
Our vision: all online media (Web, email, text, mobile) should deepen connections between members of the College's many communities.
We are grateful for our colleagues in Communications and Media Relations where we work and thrive.
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A survey of content platforms in higher education from June 2008.
Digital Commons
“Helps institutions collect, showcase, and preserve scholarly output… provides visibility for a range of intellectual output from working papers or copies of published articles to conference papers and presentations.” [Source]
Dspace
“An open-source platform for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works. … DSpace provides a way to manage your research materials and publications in a professionally maintained repository to give them greater visibility and accessibility over time.” [Source]
Drupal in Education
“An umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of Drupal in educational settings.”
Educommons
Fedora Commons
“Fedora Commons provides sustainable technologies to create, manage, publish, share and preserve digital content as a basis for intellectual, organizational, scientific and cultural heritage by bringing two communities together.” [Source]
Merlot
“MERLOT is a user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.[Source]
Metamedia
Open Knowledge Initiative
“The Open Knowledge Initiative (O.K.I) develops and promotes specifications that describe how the components of a software environment communicate with each other and with other enterprise systems.” [Source]
Open Source Community for Educational Learning Objects and Tools (OSCELOT)
“OSCELOT is a community that creates innovative open source solutions for the challenges facing the eLearning community.”
Sakai
“Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Many users of Sakai deploy it to support teaching and learning, ad hoc group collaboration, support for portfolios and research collaboration.” [Source]
Segue
“Segue is a [open source] curricular content management system designed for teaching, learning and research. It is essentially a synthesis of wikis, blogs and traditional content management systems.” [Source]
Social Media Classroom
Howard Rheingold: “Within less than a year, my expanded syllabi, resource wiki, social media online classroom and instructional videos should be ready to deploy widely by any student or educator with Web access.”