This post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System.
Ben Brophy raised an important point in his comment on my last post in this series regarding the different ways in which portals can be used with an application. As he points out, My Yahoo! just provides windows to external […]
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The Portal is the Platform, Part II
Published by August 15th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Notable Posts and LMOS. 0 CommentsHuge dotLRN Installation
Published by August 12th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!). 0 CommentsSpain’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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Enterprise vs. Internet World Views in Educational Tool Design
Published by September 28th, 2004 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Notable Posts. 0 CommentsThere’s an excellent (albeit necessarily technical) conversation about implementing OKI (which are standards that, among other things, are central to the Sakai project) over at the dotLRN discussion board within the OpenACS web site. (OpenACS is an Open Source toolkit upon which the dotLRN LMS is based.) Here’s a key snippet of conversation:
We at Cambridge […]
Brilliant Discussion Board and Blog Feature
Published by August 27th, 2004 in Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Usability and Human Factors. 1 CommentUpdate: If you came here from Stephen Downes’ Online Daily post, then you were probably looking for my article on informational cascades, which you can find here.
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Last night I posted a longish comment to the OpenACS discussion boards. (OpenACS is the Open Source toolkit upon which the dotLRN course management system is based.) OpenACS, with […]
Fingernails on Blackboard
Published by July 15th, 2004 in Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Open Source, Open Content, Open Access and Usability and Human Factors. 1 CommentHere’s a nice informational post on the pitfalls of Blackboard as well as various Open Source and home-grown alternatives (including using blogs as an ad hoc course management system) from Kathleen Gilroy. The analogy I often make with Blackboard is to a classroom where all the seats are bolted to the floor. How the room […]
