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I increasingly see this as true; I no longer just administer servers, file-shares, and take backups - every day im a technology champion. I absolutely agree that, " To empower the faculty, it is IT's job to deliver an environment that supports their needs."

"While LMS providers are making laudable efforts to incrementally make their tools more social, open, modular, and interoperable, they remain embedded in the classroom paradigm. The paradigm-not the technology-is the problem. We need to build, bootstrap, cobble together, implement, support, and leverage something that is much more open and loosely structured such that learners can connect with other learners (sometimes called teachers) and content as they engage in the authentic behaviors, activities and work of learning. Building a better, more feature-rich LMS won't close the 2-sigma gap. We need to utilize technology to better connect people, content, and learning communities to facilitate authentic, personal, individualized learning. What are we waiting for?"

Nice thought piece on how LMS's influence our teaching.

My last article came from the ComETS listserv and I figured I should just share access to that. ComETS (Community of Educational Technology Support) is a group that started a few years ago. Members share interesting news and links about all things technology and education. I recommend signing up if you aren't already. There have been some interesting discussions and countless good articles.

I just signed up for the listserv. Thanks for sharing this with us.