Monthly Archives: August 2005

Huge dotLRN Installation

Spain’s The Universidad Nacional de Educaci�n a Distancia (UNED) is moving 200,000 students to dotLRN. As far as I know, this will be easily the biggest rollout of a FOSS LMS on the planet. Congrats to the dotLRN community.

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The Portal is the Platform, Part I

This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System.
In my last few posts, I argued that accommodating niche learning applications is an important part of the next wave of LMS design, pointed to Google Maps as an example of a niche application that’s designed to be easily integratable, [...]

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The Other Side of the Integration Equation

This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System.
In the previous post, I used Google Maps as an example of an application that is built from the ground up for integration and how that can fuel rapid innovation. But in some respects, Google Maps is a bad example [...]

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More About Designing for the Long Tail

In my last entry, I wrote:
We need a system that is optimized toward slotting in new pieces as they become available, not as an after-thought or an add-on, but as a fundamental characteristic of the system.

That sounds cool and all in the abstract, but what does it mean? What is missing in today’s LMS’s, which [...]

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The Long Tail of Learning Applications

Not too long ago, I introduced the notion of a Learning Management Operating System, or LMOS. I’m going to be blogging about this concept quite a bit in the coming days and weeks, so I have created a theme heading for it on my blog. My first few posts on the topic will focus on [...]

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