Techniques for Unleashing Student Work from Learning Management Systems - 3 views
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elliottquezada on 02 Mar 15While empowering, the challenge of this model is that everyone's creations are spread across the open Web. The way that most courses deal with the problem of distributed production is by forcing all students to post in the same place, in the password-walled, institutionally controlled LMS. The way that Connected Courses deal with this challenge is by aggregation, sometimes also called syndication. All of the content produced on student blogs, websites, Twitter accounts and other social media accounts is syndicated to a single website. -
tvisco on 15 Mar 15Great article and interesting site. Thanks for sharing. I like the ideas he proposes and which we're doing in this class which is creating the structures that allow us to share, compile our learning, and communicate in professional like-minded communities. Like in our class, he suggests getting away from Blackboard and other course platforms and having students create wikis of their work, connect on twitter, and use places like Diigo to share. I can't say I feel as strongly that Blackboad and the like are truly evil as he paints them. I just think we're growing beyond them. We can all meet in google hangout, share our wikis, chat...etc. We don't really need Blackboard except to compile grades somewhere. I'm also not sure I think it's so evil that the content students post to Blackboard gets deleted after 6 months. He makes it sound like we're burning books. Most students have copies of what they post and any truly great ideas that arise during class will find a way to survive. Still, I liked the article for bringing up some excellent points and raising the question of who LMS's serve and are they really supporting learning in the ways we want them to.
