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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

News from the LeMill blog and the Learning Environments research group's blog.

LeMill updated to 3.1 (Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:52:19 +0000)

After a period of slow development, LeMill is now updated to version 3.1 with some nice new features. Major improvements in handling of media pieces when creating web pages or exercises. Pieces can have captions and their metadata can be edited on spot. Added share button for recommending resources in social media (Facebook, Google+, Twitter). [...]

Maintenance break, 28.6. 14:30 UTC to 15:30. (Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:59:18 +0000)

An important server update has popped up and we have to do an update as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

LeMill maintenance break (Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:24:19 +0000)

LeMill will be unavailable for about 1 hour during the night between Friday 29th and Saturday 30th of April. LeMill keeps growing, so we need to add more capacity to our servers. We’ll be right back! Update: The maintenance went smoothly and LeMill was unavailable for only 9 minutes. Kudos to our service provider, Gocept.

Minor update 20. April to version 3.0.14 (Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:09:02 +0000)

Updates in LeMill editor (Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:07:56 +0000)

New projects and collaboration (Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:22:56 +0000)

It’s been a hectic end of the year. The iTEC -project is moving forward with testing in school and new cycles of scenario creation and design work. The annual review of the project went fine. The reviews are important: they are quality control but also an opportunity to learn. We past the “control” and learned [...]

iTEC, LeMill and some new projects in the pipeline (Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:08:36 +0000)

We have some news from the research group, which you may have read already from some other sources. The iTEC project — the designing the future classroom — is now in a full speed. It is a four year project we started in September so the first results are expected to be out around April-May. [...]

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)

LeMill merged with Learning Toolbox (Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:28:38 +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
• TestCoverage
• UpdateGuidelines

Design

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

• LeMill4? -- Various unstructured ideas for LeMill4 (2011)
• 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
  • PPTConversion -- How to setup PPT to images -conversion with Open Office
• 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. 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.

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. :-)