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Suggestions as to why the education system is broken and then the 1st comment offers some suggestions to fix it.

More than an informal synchronous learning hub. The web conferencing system is free and has features similar to the big boys. (via @DrTonyBates)

Digital literacy or digital judgement? What is our belief system of the Internet?

Commercial student response system using students mobile devices, laptops etc.

The MOMO (Mobile Moodle) project is an Add-On to the popular Moodle Learning Management System. It brings the ability to implement mobile learning scenarios with Moodle as a backend. Mobile users install the MOMO client, a JAVA based application, on their mobile phones (or any other JAVA and Internet capable device). Through this client they can access courses wherever they are, which allows completely new scenarios. Administrators install the necessary MOMO extension on their Moodle server which makes the compatible contents available for mobile usage. They can configure and maintain the system through the integrated administration interface all within Moodle. Teachers can design courses with either several mobile elements or complete mobile learning scenarios using the tools and methodologies they know from within Moodle.

What follows is a draft of a document that I prepared that outlines a proposed architecture for Learning Management Systems. Because of it's length, I have separated it into four posts, Executive Summary, The Emerging Meme, LMS in the Enterprise Architecture, and Key Online Application Integration.

Resources on clickers - student response systems.

"Provide a whole system wide view of what tertiary education might look like in New Zealand in 2016. The work will use JISC collective scenario building strategies and, in turn, draw on and inform the discussions of the TeLRG."

Blending physical & virtual spaces Queensland University of Technology is currently developing OWL, a new web-based student response system, which blends the physical space with a virtual learning environment to create a live collaborative experience. Main Features: * Post comments* Reply to comments* "Like" comments* Poll students* Review archived sessions

"Universities are run for the benefit of the adult establishment, both politically and financially, not students."--hard-hitting analysis of the US College system by PIMCO hedge fund manager Bill Gross.

Sounds like the connection is a marketplace app, not a full part of the suite. Less inspired than possibility of G+ and hangout tech.

Developing a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet.

"One of these dead ideas is that grading motivates learning. Pike contends that grading motivates getting grades."

"Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks)."

As we thought - a marketplace app playing on the name. Still need to check out though!

Open source solution for sharing content. connecting and collaborating. Integrates with other systems.

Yes - the problems are the same with cloud and on-premise systems i.e poor user attention to security eg weak passwords, no 2 factor authentication, etc.

A set of measurable criteria to assess how well the design of classrooms support and enable active learning

A system to allow staff to easily select the applications they want to use in their courses, manage users and give access to students and externals.