Impressory -- which I happen to be working on at NICTA -- only requires you to be able to post and tag.
It has a few other goals -- it supports live interaction in-class as well as online, social content, and is part of a push towards disaggregation and content re-use. It's also much smaller and easier to set up if you want to run your own server than edX's software.
It's a work-in-progress, though it is live on a course at The University of Queensland. Though that is an on-campus course rather than a MOOC. This iteration of the course is, anyway ;)
At the moment, Impressory only deals with the content and interaction side, not assessment and marking. Though that will follow. We figured that lecturers tend to have more freedom in how they do content delivery than in how they do assessment, so social content and live interaction would be a better starting point than assignments and marking.
(Initially at UQ, we created a separate tool, Assessory, for group based peer critiques in the course. But we only even started using that ourselves on Monday.)
Part of the aim of this is that whereas Open edX is something rather large that only institutions with significant IT teams would run, this is something that it's viable for you to run yourselves, on your own server. WordPress to their Blogger, if you like.
The software is approved for release under the MIT licence. The licence file will be pushed shortly. Contributions are very welcome indeed. You've just met the development team ;)
It has a few other goals -- it supports live interaction in-class as well as online, social content, and is part of a push towards disaggregation and content re-use. It's also much smaller and easier to set up if you want to run your own server than edX's software.
It's a work-in-progress, though it is live on a course at The University of Queensland. Though that is an on-campus course rather than a MOOC. This iteration of the course is, anyway ;)
At the moment, Impressory only deals with the content and interaction side, not assessment and marking. Though that will follow. We figured that lecturers tend to have more freedom in how they do content delivery than in how they do assessment, so social content and live interaction would be a better starting point than assignments and marking.
(Initially at UQ, we created a separate tool, Assessory, for group based peer critiques in the course. But we only even started using that ourselves on Monday.)
Our UQ course is up on a server at http://impressory.com
Though we're not running that as a public service yet -- it's very alpha -- we are interested in early adopters trying it out. But please ask first.
Docs (very incomplete) for Impressory are going up at http://impressory.github.io
Code (essentially an alpha) is at http://github.com/impressory/impressory
Part of the aim of this is that whereas Open edX is something rather large that only institutions with significant IT teams would run, this is something that it's viable for you to run yourselves, on your own server. WordPress to their Blogger, if you like.
The software is approved for release under the MIT licence. The licence file will be pushed shortly. Contributions are very welcome indeed. You've just met the development team ;)