Campus Technology has strong backgrounder on Open Source that could be useful for educating your stakeholders. It covers the basics–and a few not-so-basics–in very clear, simple terms. In the latter case, I’d like to highlight just three of a handful of fine points that the article brings forward. First, one critical strategy to consider is […]
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Why Mashups Make the LMOS
Regular readers know that I’ve been flogging the notion of a Learning Management Operating System (LMOS) pretty hard. The other day, LMOS partner-in-crime Patrick Masson and I published an article about the need to make LMS’s mash-up-friendly. Well, today, ZDNet editor David Berlind effectively connects the dots between the article and the LMOS concept.
Two New Articles in e-Learn
I just had two new articles published in e-Learn Magazine. The first one, A Call to Arms, is an opinion piece arguing that we urgently need more direct faculty-technologist collaboration in LMS design if we are to make any kind of reasonable progress. The second one, which I co-authored with my colleague Patrick Masson, is […]
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 […]
What Version of Yahoo Are You Using?
This great question was posed by Patrick Masson, SUNY Learning Environments’ Director of Technology Projects, to make a point about the next generation of course management systems. The design of the current generation of systems is that of old-fashioned monolitic systems. Blackboard, WebCT, Angel–even Moodle (albeit to a somewhat lesser degree)–they are all built on […]