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Tag: LMS

  • The Future of the LMS

    Here’s the ninety-minute video and slides from a presentation I made to UMassOnline ((For other presentations in the UMassOnline speaker series, as well as a list of upcoming speakers, see https://confluence.umassonline.net/display/OBS/Speaker+Series.)) last month called W(h)ither the LMS?

    It’s a fairly institution- and enterprise-centric vision, but it has the potential to cohabitate rather nicely with more distributed, informal personal learning networks. Formal and informal educational paths should co-exist and cross each other in a seamless ecosystem, rather than being walled off from each other.

    It’s a shame that the video doesn’t capture the technology demo. I’ll try to get a screencast up at some point.

  • Louisiana State University Moves to Moodle

    This is a guest post by Jim Farmer, instructional media + magic, inc.

    UPDATE: With his permission, we have appended an email response by LSU CIO Brian D. Voss in the comments section of this post.

    On Saturday, November 3rd, MoodleRooms Michael Penny reported that Louisiana State University would be moving to the Moodle Learning System. LSU is a Major research university enrolling more than 30,000 students, including more than 1,600 international students, and nearly 5,000 graduate students. LSU has more than 1,200 full-time faculty members and a staff of more than 3,000.

    Because their process was public, we have access to valuable details that are not often available for institutional decisions such as this one.

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