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LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources. Its main target group are teachers and learning content authors, but anyone is free to join.

This site (http://lemill.org) is the home of the LeMill server platform. The open source software is developed in here. If you want to test or use LeMill, go to http://lemill.net. LeMill.net is a LeMill server hosted by us, the developers.

If you just need to get a general level information on what is LeMill, you may have of the overview at: http://lemill.net/content/overview-of-lemill.

LeMill is also known as "Learning Mill" or Learning Toolbox.

Quick links

• About
• Download -- Download the LeMill software, or read installation and upgrade instructions
• Contributing -- How to contribute to LeMill
  • Login as "guest" (password "leguest") to create new tickets - for example if you want to report problems you've encountered
• Demo servers
  • http://lemill.net -- Stable running preview server (running the latest released version, any modifications done here are preserved)
• Tag cloud of central concepts: Content, Learning Resource, Media Piece, Activity, Tool, Community, Member, Group, Group Blog, Collaboration Proposal, Material, Template, Multimedia Page, Presentation, PILOT?, Fle3?, WYSIWYM?, Learning Object?, Licenses?, Creative Commons?, Tips for Use?, LeMidlet

News

LeMill ITK-päivillä (Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:00:57 +0000)

Tarkoituksemme on tuoda LeMill opettajien tietoisuuteen Suomen suurimmassa opetusteknologiatapahtumassa: ITK’08 - Opi valitsemaan, olet aikaasi edellä Toivottavasti pääset paikalle, tilaisuus on aina mielenkiintoinen ja meiltä on luvassa kolme ohjelmanumeroa. Tärkeimpänä workshop, tämä kutsu koskee sinua: ITK-08 workshop “LeMill opettajan työkaluna” Järjestämme ITK-päivillä kaikille perus-, keski- ja korkea-asteen opettajille sopivan työpajan, jossa opitaan löytämään, käyttämään ja luomaan avoimia oppisisältöjä [...]

LeMill 2.0 (Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:53:44 +0000)

Our final deliverable for CALIBRATE project is ready. The original promise was to develop an ‘open source learning toolbox for collaborative learning’ and this should be it. It looks like our latest version announcement was from version 1.9, so 2.0 doesn’t seem so big a step, but really, we have gone a long way from [...]

LeMill merged with Learning Toolbox (Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:28:38 +0000)

As some may already know, LeMill is developed in the CALIBRATE project and so far the teachers participating in the project have used a separate, closed copy of LeMill for their testing. A month ago it was decided to combined the closed Toolbox and the open LeMill communities. Instead of having two small communities, we [...]

Publications coming (Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:03:44 +0000)

LeMill 1.9 released (Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:09:42 +0000)

About LeMill

• LeMill: Quick definition of Learning Mill / Learning Toolbox
• Overview of LeMill from the user's perspective
• FAQ for LeMill users / Manual in FAQ-format
• ConceptMaps about LeMill
• Reports -- Calibrate project deliverables
  • LD report -- Deliverable 3.1: "Empirical study of Learning Design"
  • LO template prototype demonstration -- Deliverable 3.2: "Demonstration of LO template prototypes"

Development

This section is mainly targeted for the developers of LeMill.

• Tickets
  • concept map about how tickets are used
  1. User stories under discussion -- (Guidelines for writing user stories)
  2. Accepted user stories and prototypes
  3. Currently open development tickets
• Rules
  • Basic rules of using Trac -- Basic rules of using Trac (wiki, tickets and version control) in this project
  • Coding standards -- Rules to follow when doing code
• Weekly schedule -- Weekly timetable where developers mention when they're online and working on development.
• Translations
  • Translation plans -- Plan for translating LeMill to other languages
  • Translation guidelines -- Guidelines for translating LeMill
  • TranslationGuidelinesCALIBRATE -- Translation Guidelines for CALIBRATE partners
• ProfilingResults

Design

This section is a collection of design ideas, notes, lists and other material. It may be a bit unstructured. :-)

• Communities -- About communities, communities of practice, communities of knowledge, communities of learning...
• VLEs -- About learning environments and how they relate to LeMill
• Vocabulary -- LeMill vocabulary
• SortingResources -- How to give points to resources and sort them in lists
• User Interface
  • HumanInterfaceGuidelines -- Toolbox Human Interface Guidelines
  • Here could be a link to "accepted prototypes" ticket report
• PILOT specification -- Technical specification and design of the PILOT material type
• Information architecture:
  • List of all pages -- list of all pages in LeMill system
• Pedagogy -- Information on learning, pedagogy, LOs and ideas on utilizing them in this project
• Interfaces -- Interface specifications to other systems
• Other systems -- Collection of other learning related systems
• Technology -- Technical stuff
• Metadata standards -- Information on metadata standards and their comparisons.
  • Mandatory LOM fields -- IEEE LOM fields for Content description
  • LRE LOM profile -- The EUN Learning Resource Exchange LOM Application Profile Version 2.0 (draft)
  • FormsAndMetadata -- Specs for currently used fields and discussion about what to use where
• Participatory Design sessions:
  • Design Session Instruction -- Guidelines for arranging the sessions
  • Scenarios -- Scenarios used in the sessions
  • Design session results -- English summaries of the sessions
• UserTesting -- User testing
• Design ideas -- Free brainstorming on designs
• NameIdeas -- Ideas for the name of the product
• Version names -- Symbolic names we use for each release

Communication

This section has information about what kind of communication tools and practices are used in the software development of LeMill.

• Mailing lists for developers, maintainers and users
• IRC -- IRC is used for daily communications
• Meetings and workshops
  • Meetings -- Agendas and decisions of meetings
  • Workshop -- 1st workshop/sprint in Helsinki
  • Workshop 2 -- 2nd workshop/sprint in Tallinn/Budapest
• Title index -- List of all pages in this wiki

People

• Development team members

Guidelines for developers

• Infrastructure -- Information on servers, services and tools for development
• Book list -- List of useful stuff to read in libraries or on the net

Evaluation

• Evaluation guidelines for CALIBRATE partners
• Themes for focus group interview

Dissemination

• Presentations -- presentations about LeMill at conferences and other events

About this site

This site is for the development of the LeMill server software of the CALIBRATE project (work package 3). Visitors to this site can browse all the content we have here (try out the buttons on the top of the page). More information on this Trac system is available in the Trac Guide.

You can't any longer submit bugs (here called "tickets") anonymously - since some spambots tried to harass the system. If you think you need an account here (you would like to contribute), please contact tarmo.toikkanen(at)uiah.fi for account creation.

Disclaimer: All content in this site is made by individual authors. Nobody takes any collective responsibility for the correctness of information here. But since this is a Wiki, you should have already figured that out. :-)