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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Towards an Education Inflected Architecture
The title of this post was also the title of a talk by Barbara Taranto, the Director of the Digital Library Program at the New York Public Library at yesterday’s FIT conference. I just love it. An “education inflected architecture” is exactly what I crave. But beyond that, Barbara poses exactly the right challenge: For […]
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 […]
Now, That's What I'm Talkin' 'bout!
An excerpt from Sakai’s press release regarding a demonstration of the IMS Tool Interoperability (TI) standard: The demonstration included four LMS systems including BlackBoard, WebCT, Sakai, and Moodle. The demonstration included three applications: Concept Tutor, Samigo(Sakai), and QuestionMark. All LMS/Application combinations worked and were demonstrated at the meeting which validates the interoperability of the IMS […]
Course Management Systems and Pedagogical Models
By way of edTechPost, we find this article at Dublin City University. Beyond the fact that this is a fairly large program adopting Moodle and bringing it into the big leagues, there’s this noteworthy observation embedded in DCU’s white paper: Another problem in adopting a commercial VLE was that it might constrain us to its […]