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 […]
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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 […]
Time, Ownership, and the VLE
This is the first of several posts I’ll be making about stuff I learned at yesterday’s conference at FIT–which was excellent. It’s not often that I go to a conference where I find every single speaker to be interesting, but this was certainly the case here. (Raymond Yee apparently live-blogged…er…live-wiki’ed the first part of the […]
LMOS Integration and Specialization
This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. In my last few posts, I argued that a next-generation learning management platform should have the following characteristics: It should provide a framework that makes it as easy as possible for programmers with different skill levels in different programming […]
The Portal is the Platform, Part III
This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System. I have argued in this series that the heart of an LMOS should be a portal. The main reason I have given so far is that a modern portal is well suited to handle the long tail of specialized […]
The Portal is the Platform, Part II
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 […]
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 […]