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The End in Mind » A Post-LMS Manifesto
"Through experimental investigation, Bloom found that “the average student under tutoring was about two standard deviations above the average” of students who studied in a traditional classroom setting with 30 other students... There 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."
Blackboard Client Changes Home - Blackboard Client Changes
There's lots of speculation about how much ill-will has been created by Blackboard's predatory business practices, but not much hard data. The real question is how many former Blackboard/WebCT companies have left the flock since the merger (acquisition?) of the two giants that was first announced on October 12, 2005.
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Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
Open source college revolution? | Open Source | ZDNet.com
"Moodle is trying to lead the break by putting its open source course management system into Amazon’s cloud." and "Angel Learning went open source last year."
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Angel Learning went open source last year.
Enterprise Learning Management Systems should go the way of the dinosaur
"It is astounding the list of tasks that an LMS creates for faculty just so they can teach a course." The part about making faculty into sysadmins is fantastic.
Top News - Patent fight a boon to open LMS software
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Blackboard and Desire2Learn have much more to worry about than this lawsuit, and that is the onslaught of open-source learning management systems such as Moodle and Angel
elearnspace: PLEs - I Acronym, Therefore I Exist.
"Essentially, [PLEs] are a collection of tools, brought together under the conceptual notion of openness, interoperability, and learner control." Aka... no enterprise installs, the learners and instructors use whatever they want wherever they find it. If IT has what is needed, then fine. However, free tools anywhere might be used.
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Essentially, they are a collection of tools, brought together under the conceptual notion of openness, interoperability, and learner control.
Wired Campus: Frustrated With Corporate Course-Management Systems, Some Professors Go 'Edupunk' - Chronicle.com
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Add Sticky NoteHey, I am all for rebellion against Blackboard and its ilk, not because it’s not quite Web 2.0 (web 1.2, maybe?) but because these course management packages are user-unfriendly kludgeware that are more trouble than they are worth.
- The CMS / LMS is about leveraging a single toolset to all the faculty and students. Less training because everyone is doing the same thing. Less analysis and problem-resolution because everyone using the same environment. More reporting because everyone has their data in the same place. - on 2008-07-25
New Systems Keep a Close Eye on Online Students at Home - Chronicle.com
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Called Securexam Remote Proctor, it's about the size of a large paperweight and plugs into a standard port on a home computer. The pedestal includes a groove for scanning fingerprints, a tiny microphone, and a camera. The sphere reflects a 360-degree view around the test taker, which the camera picks up.
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digital fingerprint and the image of the student match those the student provided at registration
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