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Social Software, the LMS, and Walled Gardens

By Michael Feldstein | April 2, 2006

Antero Aunesluoma writes:
There should exist somekind of continuum between “totally public” and “delimited to a single course in LMS”. A continuum that would serve the diverse users needs. And I refer the term “user” to faculty and students, not to educational technologists. The users need to decide themselves their products level of publicity. Whether the [...]

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In Defense of Walled Gardens

By Michael Feldstein | February 21, 2006

I’ve been seeing the phrase “walled garden” a lot in the edublogosphere, and always with a negative connotation. It is a term that seems to carry over from more general usage referring to either media content or wiki pages that are not open to the public. Of course, Walls are Bad, Open is Good. (”Two [...]

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