Tag Archives: Patrick-Masson

Why Mashups Make the LMOS

Regular 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.

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Two New Articles in e-Learn

I 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 [...]

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Introducing the LMOS Open Source Project

Update: The LMOS Project Vision and Mission Statements are now in HTML format on the project wiki.
I’m pleased to announce that the LMOS now has a home on Eduforge. This is an idea that really belongs to some of my colleagues at SUNY as much as it does to me, and I’ve been dying to [...]

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What Version of Yahoo Are You Using?

This great question was posed by Patrick Masson, SUNY Learning Environments’ Director of Technology Projects, to make a point about the next generation of course management systems. The design of the current generation of systems is that of old-fashioned monolitic systems. Blackboard, WebCT, Angel–even Moodle (albeit to a somewhat lesser degree)–they are all built [...]

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