In the first post of this series, I identified four design goals for a learning platform that would be well suited for discussion-based courses: Kill the grade book in order to get faculty away from concocting arcane and artificial grading schemes and more focused on direct measures of student progress. Use scale appropriately in order […]
LMS & Learning Platforms
Everything you want to know about Learning Management Systems and whatever comes after them.
Blueprint for a Post-LMS, Part 1
Reading Phil’s multiple reviews of Competency-Based Education (CBE) “LMSs”, one of the implications that jumps out at me is that we see a much more rapid and coherent progression of learning platform designs if you start with a particular pedagogical approach in mind. CBE is loosely tied to family of pedagogical methods, perhaps the most […]
Editorial Policy: Notes on recent reviews of CBE learning platforms
Oh let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been To sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen They talk of days for which they sit and wait and all will […]
LoudCloud Systems and FASTRAK: A non walled-garden approach to CBE
As competency-based education (CBE) becomes more and more important to US higher education, it would be worth exploring the learning platforms in use. While there are cases of institutions using their traditional LMS to support a CBE program, there is a new market developing specifically around learning platforms that are designed specifically for self-paced, fully-online, […]
First View of Bridge: The new corporate LMS from Instructure
Last week I covered the announcement from Instructure that they had raised another $40 million in venture funding and were expanding into the corporate learning market. Today I was able to see a demo of their new corporate LMS, Bridge. While Instructure has very deliberately designed a separate product from Canvas, their education-focused LMS, you can […]
What TechCrunch Got Wrong (and Right) About Instructure Entering Corporate Learning Market
After yesterday’s “sources say” report from TechCrunch about Instructure – maker of the Canvas LMS – raising a new round of financing and entering the corporate LMS space, Instructure changed plans and made their official announcement to today. The funding is to both expand the Canvas team and to establish the new corporate LMS team. I’m […]
NGDLE: The quest to eat your cake and have it too
And I’m going old school and sticking to the previous saying. Today I’m participating in the EDUCAUSE meeting on Next Generation Digital Learning Environments, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation1. From the invitation: The purpose of the panel is to identify potential investment strategies that are likely to encourage and hasten the arrival of […]