The title of this post was also the title of a talk by Barbara Taranto, the Director of the Digital Library Program at the New York Public Library at yesterday’s FIT conference. I just love it. An “education inflected architecture” is exactly what I crave. But beyond that, Barbara poses exactly the right challenge:
For faculty […]
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Towards an Education Inflected Architecture
Published by October 8th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Notable Posts and LMOS. 0 CommentsThe Portal is the Platform, Part III
Published by August 17th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 0 CommentsThis post is part of a series on the concept of a Learning Management Operating System.
I have argued in this series that the heart of an LMOS should be a portal. The main reason I have given so far is that a modern portal is well suited to handle the long tail of specialized learning […]
The Portal is the Platform, Part I
Published by August 11th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 5 CommentsThis 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, […]
More About Designing for the Long Tail
Published by August 7th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) and LMOS. 3 CommentsIn 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 […]
The Long Tail of Learning Applications
Published by August 7th, 2005 in Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!), Notable Posts and LMOS. 1 CommentNot 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 […]
