I was doing a bit of research on the IMS Tool Interoperability effort and I ran across this post by Chuck Severence. He was enthusing about the need for the developing standard—a sentiment which I wholeheartedly support (although I don’t know enough about TI yet to know how I feel about the way they propose […]
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Stephen Downes Missed the Point
Published by January 31st, 2006 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 33 CommentsOK, 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 […]
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 […]
LMOS Architecture Available on Wiki
Published by December 7th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 2 CommentsBernie Durfee has been doing some great architectural design work on the LMOS concept, which is now open to the public. It’s mostly technical and aimed at a developer audience; however, Bernie is a very good writer and has done a great job of making the technical issues fairly decipherable even to non-technologists.
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SUNY Proposes to Build a Learning Management Operating System
Published by October 29th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 0 CommentsI am pleased and proud to note that SUNY Learning Environments, parent organization to the SUNY Learning Network, is proposing to build an LMOS to support its 100,000+ enrollments. From the announcement:
In the last eighteen months, LE has mounted a broad, thorough and inclusive investigation into new technologies to support SLN’s programs and services, including […]
