Category Archives: LMOS

Learming Management Operating Systems

Xplana.com: Is This a PLE?

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

The title of this post is slightly tongue-in-cheek because I have my doubts about whether there is such a thing as PLEs that are distinct from existing software product categories. If there were, then after years of people talking about … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in Blogo-eroticism and Other Hype, Educational Pattern Languages, Emergence, Distributed Cognition, & Aggregation Science, Higher Education, LMOS, Notable Posts, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

Sakai 3 Roadmap and Progress

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

Up until now, it would have been fair to call Sakai 3 a mature experiment. Two years of work have been invested, mostly by Cambridge, to test out some ideas about the design, architecture, and development ecosystem of next-generation virtual … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in LMOS, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Moodle 2: File Import from and Export to Cloud Apps

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

Gavin Henrick has a useful blog that publishes information about the ongoing development of Moodle 2. I was particularly interested in how Moodle will handle sharing files with consumer web apps like Google Docs and Flickr. Lucky for me, Gavin … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in LMOS, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Blackboard's iPad App and its implications

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

Ray Henderson has a post up about his sense of responsibility to customers regarding balancing innovation with mature products (careful refinements in features and support services to meet customer needs) versus innovation in new areas (bold thinking and experiments). It’s … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in LMOS, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Usability and Human Factors | Tagged , , , | 4 Comments

Sakai 3: The Benefits of 'Everything is Content'

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Michael Feldstein

One of the more radical departures that Sakai 3 makes from traditional LMS design is that everything in the system is treated as content. A traditional LMS is an aggregation of tools—discussion boards, grade books, test engines, wikis, assignment drop … Continue reading →

  • Share/Bookmark
Posted in LMOS, Notable Posts, Openness, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 14 Comments