I am pleased and proud to note that SUNY Learning Environments, parent organization to the SUNY Learning Network, is proposing to build an LMOS to support its 100,000+ enrollments. From the announcement: In the last eighteen months, LE has mounted a broad, thorough and inclusive investigation into new technologies to support SLN’s programs and services, […]
Archives for 2005
LMOS Services and Service Brokers, Part I
One of the most important concepts in the LMOS Project Vision and Mission Statements is the service broker. In fact, it may very well be the most important concept. But it can be a little abstract, especially for non-technologists (like me). In the next couple of posts, I’m going to do my best to explain […]
LMOS Project First Release Goals
I’ve created a new wiki page for release goals on the project and described the goals for first release. Getting that first release out should hopefully give us enough raw materials to spur significant community discussion. I’m sure we’ll set up a project blog on Eduforge in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime, I’ll post […]
Introducing the LMOS Open Source Project
Update: The LMOS Project Vision and Mission Statements are now in HTML format on the project wiki. I’m pleased to announce that the LMOS now has a home on Eduforge. This is an idea that really belongs to some of my colleagues at SUNY as much as it does to me, and I’ve been dying […]
All Hail the Mighty B-Rex
Yes, yes, we’ve all heard the news by now. BlackCT Wednesday has hit. Will it be remembered as The Day the Music Died? I don’t think so. Unfortunately, it could be remembered as The Day the Music Was So Badly Wounded That It Became Barely Listenable for a Really Long Time. You know. Kinda like […]
Does Education Inflected Architecture = Web 2.0?
In my last post, I suggested that we need an architecture that is designed with a low barrier of entry for educators to actively influence and change themselves. Today, I ran into a related post by Dana Boyd, which I actually found through Hypergene Media Blog which, in turn, found it via Ben Hammersly. (Whew.) […]
Towards an Education Inflected Architecture
The title of this post was also the title of a talk by Barbara Taranto, the Director of the Digital Library Program at the New York Public Library at yesterday’s FIT conference. I just love it. An “education inflected architecture” is exactly what I crave. But beyond that, Barbara poses exactly the right challenge: For […]