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Project History
2010
- Enterprise Rhaptos introduced for running Connexions software and growing the developer community
- Mobile versions (EPUB) of content introduced
- Express edit for reusing content and drag and drop collection (book) editor
- Over 1000 collections and 17,000 modules in the repository
2009
- Connexions Consortium formed
- Lens-based branding and document format upgrades (CNXML and CollXML), Google Analytics support added
2008
- Connexions 1st Annual Conference in February of 2008
- Connexions fully automated book generation and print-on-demand introduced
- More import capability added for Word and LaTeX
- Development manager, Ed Woodward, joins Connexions
2007
2006
- Usability expert Manpreet Kaur joins Connexions
- Project Manager/Technical Director Katherine Fletcher joins Connexions
- Connexions receives 3rd Hewlett foundation award
2005
- Rhaptos 1.5 software released. Rhaptos is the code name for the software developed and used by Connexions
- Authors can import Microsoft Word documents directly into Connexions with the Word Importer
- Edit-In-Place capabilities are expanded and it becomes the default editor in workspaces and workgroups
- W. Joseph (Joey) King joins the Connexions team as its Executive Director
- Beta launch: each version of module now has its own "discussion forum" allowing online discussions among users
- Connexions adopts the 2.0 version of the Creative Commons Attribution License
- Connexions has content in Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai languages
- 2800 modules in repository
2004
2003
- Connexions goes global as Information and Signal Theory from
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology becomes the first
international course to use Connexions
- New Edit-In-Place technology announced, making it easier for
authors to edit Connexions modules
- 1600 modules in repository
2002
- Geneva Henry joins Connexions as first Executive Director
- DSP Laboratory at University of Illinois becomes the first non-Rice course offered using Connexions
- Connexions releases "ZAnnot", the first piece of system to be released Open-Source:
Zope implementation of Annotea protocol
- Kitty Schmidt-Jones and Anthony Brandt start Connexions' second major content focus around music materials
- Hewlett Foundation awards Connexions first major grant
- Connexions becomes one of the first Creative
Commons license adopters
- 900 modules in repository
2001
- Premiere of Connexions "web-based authoring interface"
- Connexions hosts workshop to form collaborative authoring
community around Digital Signal Processing content
- Michael Stewart joins advisory council and contributes funding
- 500 modules in repository
2000
- Dean Sidney Burrus and Chuck Henry contribute first support
- Bill Sick, Bob Maxfield, Burt McMurtry get involved as advisory council members and key funders
- Rice President Malcolm Gillis and Provost Gene Levy contribute
- First team of summer students develop software and content
- First Connexions implementation goes live
- Rice University Electrical Engineering courses Fundamentals of
Electrical Engineering and
Introduction to Physical Electronics
become the first courses offered with Connexions
- 200 modules in repository
1999
- October: Connexions is born! Early on it's called the Secret Web Initiative
- Many planning discussions. First faculty involved: Richard Baraniuk, Don Johnson, Bill Wilson, and Sidney Burrus. Don Johnson suggests the name “Connexions”
- Skunk works project; Brent Hendricks and Yan David Erlich drive technical decision to go with XML and MathML
- Richard Baraniuk presents Connexions at the first Rice Alliance meeting
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