here is, at its very core, a problem with the LMS paradigm. The “M” in “LMS” stands for “management.” This is not insignificant. The word heavily implies that the provider of the LMS, the educational institution, is “managing” student learning. Since the dawn of public education and the praiseworthy societal undertaking “educate the masses,” management has become an integral part of the learning. And this is exactly what we have designed and used LMSs to do—to manage the flow of students through traditional, semester-based courses more efficiently than ever before. The LMS has done exactly what we hired it to do: it has reinforced, facilitated, and perpetuated the traditional classroom model, the same model that Bloom found woefully less effective than one-on-one learning.
Web 2.0 & Learning Management Systems: Promoting Community and Collaboration Session 6, Room: D, 3:00p.m. - 3:50p.m. Katherine Hayden, California State University San Marcos Dennis O'Connor , University of Wisconsin-Stout Abstract: Web 2.0 tools combined with learning management systems like WebCT®, Desire2Learn or Moodle®, provide opportunities for information driven collaborative writing and research. We will present a comparison of Diigo and del.icio.us social bookmarking, an overview of Google Docs, and a demonstration of how survey tools build online community.
