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Re: Sakai 12, Struggling Open Source LMS, Is More Important Than Ever

lgekeler — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:50:24 -0000

This particular article is about an open source LMS, but it's tagged "proprietary LMS". It has a note about a photo of an iron chef supposedly displayed to the right of the note, but there's an ad there instead.
This paragraph is intriguing, but I have no idea what it means, "Imagine as if Moodle was run by the Moodle Users Association. Who are also their biggest users. Institutions can switch from Moodle, and its development roadmap stays the same. With Sakai, the experience is proportional to the organization’s involvement. Unlike Moodle, Sakai’s features reflect nothing but their users’ needs. (Weighted by their engagement with the project.)"

Clarity in style, in grammar, and a content is all I'm asking.

Re: Sakai 12, Struggling Open Source LMS, Is More Important Than Ever

lgekeler — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 10:43:36 -0000

Why is the editing on this site so bad? There are typos everywhere. There's a whole paragraph repeated. Is this bot-gathered content? Is the content even accurate?

Re: Trial and Error: Striving for the perfect LMS at the University of Virginia

lgekeler — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:53:36 -0000

Anthony,
Yes, it was a terrible disappointment to me as well that the Learning Content Management System never caught on. Frankly I think of the LMS as the layout, assembly and delivery of an entire package - the course - It's never going to be a great authoring system for some of the amazing works we've now seen. Physics simulations; videos with embedded questions; practice tools with variables to keep working different versions of problems for mastery; digital books with personalized and shared commenting, note taking, bookmarking, and voiceover abilities...

This article mentions the notion of a next generation digital learning "environment" - I think of that as a cluster of interoperable systems, best of breed, with institutionally vetted fitness of purpose for each part of it. I applaud UVa for their commitment to remain in charge of their destiny through participation in open-source, shaping and morphing their teaching and learning environment for their own needs while keeping the industry on its competitive toes!

Re: Campus Technology 2015 Readers' Choice Awards -- Campus Technology

lgekeler — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 09:12:16 -0000

I've been an LMS Administrator for 11 years, through 3 disparate software packages and 4 LMS evaluations at my institution. I agree with the first commenter, Steve Covello, that this survey has resulted, not in best of breed, but in name brand recognition only. In the case of LMSs, Moodle has significant name brand recognition in the K-12 market, but has less market saturation in higher ed. We would definitely see Moodle drop into 4th or 5th place if this were a best of breed election among higher ed by those who are familiar with all the contenders. Ahead of Moodle, I would guess we would see both Brightspace (Desire2Learn) and Sakai.

Re: Authoring Tools – Are You Up To Date?

lgekeler — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:42:31 -0000

Learning management systems are THE primary delivery platform for content authored with these tools. K-12 has invested in them. 99% of higher ed institutions have LMSs. Even corporate training has an LMS. The SCORM standard has not been updated in years. If a particular LMS supports SCORM, it's deprecated and on its way out. The standard(s) which authoring tools need to comply with are LTI 1.x, from imsglobal org, which most LMSs already support and are adding LTI 2.0 support, and the xAPI (aka "Tin Can" API or "Experience" API). Sadly none of the players above support LTI integration to a delivery platform. Only one, as far as I know, supports the xAPI. Two other non-proprietary solutions coming up with Adapt did not get a mention. Obojobo, out of the University of Central Florida, is currently implementing LTI. And Xerte, from the University of Nottingham, a strong open source community in Europe, and making its way to the US, also has LTI on its roadmap.

Re: WebAssign Adds Canvas, Brightspace Integrations -- THE Journal

lgekeler — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:34:29 -0000

The method used for all of these integrations (Canvas,Brightspace,Blackboard,Moodle) is a standard developed by IMS Global and adopted by the best educational technologies by best practice. If WebAssign adheres to the LTI standard, and their website indicates they do, then all LMSs complying with the LTI standard are automatically able to integrate with WebAssign. Kudos to WebAssign for complying with the standard. Now if we could get Box, which has a large higher ed client base for its web storage repository, to also implement to the LTI (Learning technology integration) standard, our lives would be much easier.

Re: Analysts see changes ahead for LMS market after a summer light on news

lgekeler — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:51:33 -0000

I hadn't seen this yet. Thanks for directing me to it! Does look like Bb has paid attention to some huge deficits. I'm glad to know I need to throw out old assumptions and start over again.

Re: Don’t Let FEAR Drive Your Development Process

lgekeler — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:47:03 -0000

Your reference to "Historical Processes" reminded me off my own blog post after reading Daniel Pink's book Drive. He does an overview of industrial revolution-aged management practices as "contain and control" oriented. I was particularly struck by the need to change up our processes to meet the new reality of highly motivated professionals and our need for "autonomy over process" (toward the end of my post: http://lauragekeler.com/201...

Re: Why You Hate Your CMS

lgekeler — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:40:23 -0000

Ha! What is interesting to me is that when I settled into reading, I thought the "CMS" you were talking about was the old LMS/CLE term for COURSE management system and I was nodding along in agreement. I continued reading in amazement after recognizing you were talking about CONTENT management systems (the use of "Contribute" was my first clue) .
The article truly could be read both ways. I think higher ed needs to hear the message in both cases: it is not our systems that need to change, but our expectations and management thereof!

Re: Learning Technology Customers

lgekeler — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:27:42 -0000

What about the fact that we already have a portal? A CMS/LMS or PLE or VLE (whatever we're calling it at the moment) becoming a portal within a portal... WHY so much complexity?