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James Tauber has just created a new project for learning management at Google Code that is intended to be variant of the Pinax suite. Called, sensibly enough, Pinax-LMS, James says of it:

Just to be clear, I’m talking about building a full-blown Moodle-like
system on top of Pinax (although where possible making apps that could
be used outside of just the LMS).

I’m intrigued by this, and plan to help where I can, and as (limited) time permits. Why?

1. Pinax is a nice, clean, foundation for social web applications.
2. It’s in turn built on top of Django, which is a nice, clean, foundation for all kinds of web applications.

I guess the question I’m interested in here is: what possibilities would this foundation offer to enable tighter, and more elegant, integration of “learner-centric” social-networking functionality which is going to play an important role in education going forward, and the more traditional LMS focus on courses?

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