This 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 [...]
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 [...]
This 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, [...]
Ben Brophy, a UI designer at MIT, muses about whether Sakai is a platform or a product. His initial answer is that it should be both. But he worries about the implications of having it as platform:
The conference ended with a Q&A session with the Sakai board members. I asked how decisions about what’s included [...]
