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vPodcasting?
Update: For those of you who tried the link and found it broken, it has been fixed now. Sorry about that. My colleagues at FIT are at it again. Not content to merely use podcasting as part of their art history courses, they are trying out screencasting, using Camtasia to provide audiovisual tours of art […]
LMOS Services and Service Brokers, Part II
In a (relatively) recent post, I started to outline how a service broker mechanism could greatly increase the pace of innovation in LMS design. The basic idea was that individual applications in the system could provide services that other applications could automagically pick up on, without requiring developers to wire up integration individually every time. […]
SUNY Proposes to Build a Learning Management Operating System
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, […]
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 […]