November 2002–June 2004
MIT’s Sloan School developed a proprietary course management system called SloanSpace. iLearn furthered this concept with a scaleable, open source e-learning platform with rich functionality for online communities, as well as management for learning and content.
Compliant with MIT’s Open Knowledge Initiative and MIT’s infrastructure standards, iLearn was implemented using enterprise-ready, flexible architecture based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. The development of iLearn contributed to providing valuable framework infrastructure in which software components could be shared within the university and across institutions. The work at the Sloan School evolved into the .LRN educational platform, an enterprise-class open source software for supporting online learning and digital communities, with more than half a million users in higher education, government, nonprofit, and K–12.
Investigators: Alfred Essa, CTO, MIT Sloan School of Management; Andrew Grumet; Tracy Adams; Genevieve Cuevas