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* Variants: "Community, content, collaborative management system", Community, Content, and Collaborative Management System", "Communicate, Collaborate & Coordinate Management System".
* Variants: "Community, content, collaborative management system", Community, Content, and Collaborative Management System", "Communicate, Collaborate & Coordinate Management System".


== C3MS compontents ==
== C3MS components ==


Here is a table of typical C3MS components along with a list of functions useful to activity-based pedagogical designs.
Here is a table of typical C3MS components along with a list of functions useful to activity-based pedagogical designs. This is not a canonical list, it only demonstrates the spirit.


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== C3MS in education ==
== C3MS in education ==


While one can observe a boom of interest for e-learning in the last 2-3 years, current e-learning systems rather focus on content delivery, as opposed to supporting students to solve more complex and open-ended tasks. We are convinced by the effectiveness of socio-constructivist pedagogies in education and struck by the apparent lack of widely deployed supporting tools. We would like to argue that a large number of rich educational scenarios can be supported at reasonable cost by the emerging brand of modular Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems (C3MS). In order to explore this hypothesis we started deploying such architectures with a few selected teachers and we are working on our own custom modules."
While one can observe a boom of interest for e-learning in the last years, current [[e-learning]] systems rather focus on content delivery, as opposed to supporting students to solve more complex and open-ended tasks. We are convinced by the effectiveness of [[socio-constructivism | socio-constructivist]] pedagogies in education and struck by the apparent lack of widely deployed supporting tools despite a lot of research on [[cognitive tool]]s. We would like to argue that a large number of rich educational scenarios can be supported at reasonable cost by the emerging brand of modular Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems (C3MS). In order to explore this hypothesis we started deploying such architectures with a few selected teachers and we are working on our own custom modules."
 
 
 


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 14:03, 31 March 2006

Definition

  • C3MS stands for Community, Collaboration, Content Management System, i.e. portal software that allows to manage a community, collaboration between members and contents. C3MS can refer to either a existing portal that includes several usually simple modules or to portalware (i.e. the toolkit) needed to install and configure the portal.
  • Variants: "Community, content, collaborative management system", Community, Content, and Collaborative Management System", "Communicate, Collaborate & Coordinate Management System".

C3MS components

Here is a table of typical C3MS components along with a list of functions useful to activity-based pedagogical designs. This is not a canonical list, it only demonstrates the spirit.

Function

C3MS modules (tools of the portal)

Content management

News engine (including a organization by topics and an annotation mechanism)

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Collaborative hypertexts (Wikis)

Image albums (photos, drawings, etc.)

Glossary tool or similar

Individual weblogs (diaries)

Knowledge exchange

News syndication (headlines from other portals)

File sharing

(all CMS tools above)

Exchange of arguments

Forums and/or new engine

Chats

Project support

Project management modules,

Calendars

Knowledge management

FAQ manager

Links Manager ("Yahoo-like")

Search by keywords for all contents

"top 10" box, rating systems for comments

"What's new" (forum messages, downloads, etc.)

Community management

Presence, profile and identification of members

Shoutbox (mini-chat integrated into the portal page)

Reputation system

Activity tracing for members

Event calendar

News engine


C3MS in education

While one can observe a boom of interest for e-learning in the last years, current e-learning systems rather focus on content delivery, as opposed to supporting students to solve more complex and open-ended tasks. We are convinced by the effectiveness of socio-constructivist pedagogies in education and struck by the apparent lack of widely deployed supporting tools despite a lot of research on cognitive tools. We would like to argue that a large number of rich educational scenarios can be supported at reasonable cost by the emerging brand of modular Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems (C3MS). In order to explore this hypothesis we started deploying such architectures with a few selected teachers and we are working on our own custom modules."



References

  • The [ Tecfa SEED Catalog]