OK, so Stephen Downes doesn’t like the LMOS:
I have been sort of sympathetic to the concept of the learningmanagement operating system (LMOS) because, after all, the concept includes things that I favour: distributed resources, user access to the underlying system. But I began to falter when Mark Feldstein said “We don’t just want to offer […]
Archive for January, 2006
Stephen Downes Missed the Point
Published by January 31st, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 33 CommentsiTunes University and the LMOS
Published by January 28th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 2 CommentsThere’s been a lot of buzz (some positive and some negative) about Apple’s iTunes University. I’m pleased to say that I will be traveling with a number of SUNY colleagues to 1 Infinite Loop the week after next, where we will hear more about the program. I promise to blog about what I learn. In […]
Why Mashups Make the LMOS
Published by January 28th, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 1 CommentRegular 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.Berlind makes […]
Two New Articles in e-Learn
Published by January 27th, 2006 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 0 CommentsI 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 […]
More Corroborating Info on Cost of Sales
Published by January 24th, 2006 in Higher Education, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and Open Source, Open Content, Open Access. 0 CommentsMark Carden makes an interesting observation that supports Jim Farmer’s calculations regarding Blackboard’s cost of sales:
I know something about the cost of sales issue, having sold library automation software for most of the past ten years (at Innovative and Dynix). I have long said that it costs the major ILS/LMS vendors an average of about […]
