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Ted Curran

Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 19 May 10 - Cached
  • Faculty use the CMS primarily as an administrative tool … rather than as a tool anchored in pedagogy or cognitive science models."
  • Several reports confirm that instructors overwhelmingly use content distribution and administrative tools in the LMS while using interactive learning tools only sparingly
  • LMSs have become little more than "storage facilities for lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations."11
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  • largely failed to empower the strong and effective imaginations that students need for creative citizenship
  • First, LMSs are generally organized around discrete, arbitrary units of time — academic semesters. Courses typically expire and simply vanish every 15 weeks or so, thereby disrupting the continuity and flow of the learning process.
  • Second, LMSs are teacher-centric. Teachers create courses, upload content, initiate threaded discussions, and form groups. Opportunities for student-initiated learning activities in the traditional LMS are severely limited.
  • Finally, courses developed and delivered via the LMS are walled gardens, limited to those officially enrolled in them. This limitation impairs content sharing across courses, conversations between students within and across degree programs, and all of the dynamic learning affordances of the read-write web.2
  • personal learning networks (PLNs) to manage information, create content, and connect with others
  • personal cyberinfrastructures
  • Campbell argued that we should embrace technologies that enable co-learners to frame, curate, share, and direct learning "engagement streams
  • Value accrues to the system as a whole because the more users or ‘nodes’ there are in a network, the more possible connections there are
  • several significant weaknesses and challenges associated with PLEs
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  • Teachers and learners should be encouraged and supported in their efforts to find and use the most appropriate and effective best-of-breed tools outside the LMS
  • the University of Mary Washington deployed an instance of WordPress MultiUser (WPMU) as an alternative teaching and learning platform (UMW Blogs)
  • enabling the creation of blogs that automatically enroll students in courses as "members" of class blogs created by instructors
  • A pilot currently under way at Duke University (http://blogs-dev.oit.duke.edu) is aimed at assessing the viability of WPMU as an alternative platform for instructors teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. The list of potential uses on the pilot site includes using a WordPress blog as "the central course administrative tool" instead of Blackboard.
  • The LMS paradigm assumes that since some data must be kept private and secure, all data must be kept private and secure.
  • As depicted in Figure 1, proprietary applications and data such as the student information system (SIS), secure online assessment tools, and a university gradebook should be situated inside the private, secure university network. Personal publishing space, social networking, and collaboration tools live in the open, flexible cloud.
  • a loosely coupled gradebook is perhaps the essential module that brings all of the "small pieces" together.
  • instructors and students need a private, secure way to communicate about student performance on assignments, quizzes, and tests
  • If these artifacts are published on the web, they are individually addressable via URLs, so the OLN’s loosely coupled gradebook would simply require the submission of the URL instead of requiring students to upload the artifacts to a traditional gradebook. Instructors would then see a list of student names and links to the artifacts they published on the web
Ted Curran

Public LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 25 Aug 10
     
    These are websites where universities have made their LMS evaluation procedures public knowledge.
Ted Curran

SCORM » SCORM Cloud - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 15 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 15 Oct 10
     
    This is a system for allowing any Web 2.0 tool to generate SCORM data so you can collect grade scoring data and populate it into your LMS gradebook.
Ted Curran

Directory of E-Learning Tools: Course Authoring Tools - 0 views

www.c4lpt.co.uk/...instructional.html

shared by Ted Curran on 13 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 13 Jul 10
     
    An exhaustive feature comparison list of Learning Management Systems. We should review this before considering new LMS purchases
Ted Curran

Selecting an Open-Source Online Course Development and Delivery Platform: An Academic P... - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 25 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 25 Aug 10
     
    Abstract Increasingly, educators are implementing course development and delivery platforms to place their distance courses online in order to expand accessibility to educational opportunities, make use of multimedia capabilities, and provide effective management of the teaching and learning experience. These platforms are also referred to as course management systems (CMS), learning management systems (LMS), learning portals, or e-learning platforms. They are integrated, comprehensive software packages that support the development, delivery, evaluation, and administration of online courses and can be used in both traditional face-to-face instruction and in an online environment. The decision to obtain such software is frequently made by administrators and computer managers. However, academics should play a significant role in this decision process, as they must create and manage an enticing, interactive learning environment that is easy for the instructors and learners to use. This paper focuses primarily on the instructor and learner perspectives of online course management systems, but also considers administrative factors such as student record keeping, technical requirements, and the cost of ownership. It is intended to meet the needs of educators who are contemplating the acquisition of this type of software or want to change from one platform to another.
Ted Curran

Harvesting Gradebook « Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 20 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 20 Sep 10
     
    A secure, flexible, web-interoperable gradebook is the first step at moving beyond the LMS.
Ted Curran

The Future of the LMS | e-Literate - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 02 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Ted Curran on 02 Oct 10
     
    Michael Feldman discusses Sakai
Ted Curran

moodle-google - Project Hosting on Google Code - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 20 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 20 Oct 10
     
    If we switch to an open LMS like Moodle, there will still be Google Apps integration.
Ted Curran

Instructure Canvas: A New LMS Entrant | e-Literate - 0 views

mfeldstein.com/cture-canvas-a-new-lms-entrant

shared by Ted Curran on 20 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Ted Curran on 20 Jan 11
     
    First Look and analysis of Canvas by Instructure.
Ted Curran

http://remote-learner.net/sites/default/files/file/NC_osc_feasibility_study_full_report... - 1 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Ted Curran on 26 Jan 11
     
    North Carolina LMS Feasibility study comparing Bb and Moodle
Ellie Hoffman

The Interaction Equivalency Theorem - 9.2.1.pdf - 0 views

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shared by Ellie Hoffman on 22 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Ellie Hoffman on 22 Mar 16
     
    interaction equivalency theorem
Ted Curran

Instructure - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 30 Jun 10 - Cached
Ted Curran

Personal Learning Networks - WikiPODia - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 03 Sep 10 - Cached
  • The term "personal learning network" (PLN) frequently refers to a changing set of people and tools one uses to engage in continuing, informal professional development.
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