MLEX Next Step Survey

[gmarrer]

I have designed and built two different proof of concept asp.net pages to test the feasibility of moving MLEX to a web page. State management and sandbox limitations (if you have done web programming you will understand the implications) make the web based MLEX much less interactive and much for difficult to implement new editing tools (not to mention saving and loading pages for editing). My thinking is that it might be better to keep MLEX on a computer as a local application but instead use a programming language that runs everywhere (like PYTHON) and make it open source.

I have a survey i created this morning that asks some of these questions. Please click on the link below and take this 10 questions survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=fTC_2f0KYbFjGSmE34JmJiaA_3d_3d

[Jorge Olenewa]

Gary,

Only one comment about your statement above "...My thinking is that it might be better to keep MLEX on a computer as a local application but instead use a programming language that runs everywhere (like PYTHON) and make it open source."

How can I help?

I am currently involved with three different research initiatives. Two of these are directly related to mobile learning. My Community College has the research funding, the faculty brains, and a few programming students left that can assist with your efforts to turn MLEX into a significant open source product. If I can get people interested in this, do you still want to prusue it?

[gmarrer]

Jorge

This sounds like a great idea. I have one hurdle first. Since this was done on a sabbatical, I need to get clearance from my Instructional VP. I will have an answer the end of this week or early next week.

[gmarrer]

Jorge

Looks I have the "green light" to move forward. I am in meetings most of the coming week (we start school the week after that). Can we talk via Skype or Google Voice next week some time to talk about the next step? Send me a private email message with your reply or you can contact me via email at [e-mail].