WISE TECHNOLOGY LESSONS: MOVING FROM A LOCAL PROPRIETARY SYSTEM TO A GLOBAL OPEN SOURCE FRAMEWORK
James D. Slotta, Turadg Aleahmad · Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning · 2009
WISE is a software platform that enables easy authoring and exchange of educational materials amongst learning science researchers. This paper charts the recent evolution of the WISE technology, sharing lessons learned and describing a new open source framework called SAIL. We identify key challenges and design principles for technology-enhanced learning environments, and describe how we applied these principles to help WISE move from a single-developer codebase to an international open source codebase shared among multiple technology projects. Finally, we discuss the new types of community this transition fosters.