Installation/Requirements - Elgg Documentation
Elgg runs on a combination of the Apache web server, MySQL database system and the PHP interpreted scripting language. This is the most popular web server environment in the world.
Due to Elgg's advanced functionality, there are some extra configuration requirements:
E-Learning 2.0: All You Need To Know ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
It probably isn't all you need to know about e-learning 2.0 but this article is a nice start, caturing the 'small pieces loosely joined'aspect and leading the reader through social networking tools such asElgg and other social networking tools. From this, the author goes onto look at collaborative e-learning systems in more detail - though Iwould hasten to point out that there is a large difference between'collaboration' in the sense of groupwork and 'collaboration' in the sense of cooperative networks. [Link]
Wolf Hilzensauer von der Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft hat eine Dokumentation - PDF (330 KB) über ePortfolios als "Methode und Werkzeug für kompetenzorientiertes Lernen" veröffentlicht. Neben der prägnanten Beschreibung finden sich auch weitere Verweise auf Werkzeuge im Netz sowie einige Zeilen zu elgg - learning landscape. Lesenswert!! [via e-Denkarium » Blog Archive]