This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. Ben Brophy raised an important point in his comment on my last post in this series regarding the different ways in which portals can be used with an application. As he points out, My Yahoo! just provides windows to […]
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What Platform Do You Use for (Pure) Distance Learning?
I’m doing a little research and could use your help. I have a growing suspicion that the distribution of LMS platforms for programs that do large amounts of pure distance learning is different than the mix of LMS’s among institutions that mainly do web-enhanced (which is most of the higher ed market, frankly). If you […]
Huge dotLRN Installation
Spain’s The Universidad Nacional de Educaci�n a Distancia (UNED) is moving 200,000 students to dotLRN. As far as I know, this will be easily the biggest rollout of a FOSS LMS on the planet. Congrats to the dotLRN community.
The Portal is the Platform, Part I
This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. In my last few posts, I argued that accommodating niche learning applications is an important part of the next wave of LMS design, pointed to Google Maps as an example of a niche application that’s designed to be easily […]
The Other Side of the Integration Equation
This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. In the previous post, I used Google Maps as an example of an application that is built from the ground up for integration and how that can fuel rapid innovation. But in some respects, Google Maps is a bad […]
More About Designing for the Long Tail
In my last entry, I wrote: We need a system that is optimized toward slotting in new pieces as they become available, not as an after-thought or an add-on, but as a fundamental characteristic of the system. That sounds cool and all in the abstract, but what does it mean? What is missing in today’s […]
The Long Tail of Learning Applications
Not too long ago, I introduced the notion of a Learning Management Operating System, or LMOS. I’m going to be blogging about this concept quite a bit in the coming days and weeks, so I have created a theme heading for it on my blog. My first few posts on the topic will focus on […]