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CMS, course management, learning management, teaching and learning with technology
Updated on Apr 09, 10
Created on Oct 29, 08
Category: Schools & Education
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The LMS community in SUNY was shaken up with the discontinuation of WebCT by Blackboard (Bb), and the migration of the SUNY Learning Network from Lotus Notes to Angel. As a result, SUNY Delhi, as both a WebCT and SLN client, faced a double migration. CIS undertook an assessment of current LMS functionality, teaching and learning practices, industry standards and trends as well as cost, and identified Moodle as the preferred platform. Grant Primary drivers and benefits include:
Now, why would you want to do that without the full coolness that is Wave? It’s simple: control. If you’re heavily open education-oriented and tend to have an allergic reaction to anything remotely institutional, then you probably think I just wrote a dirty word. But if you’re more old-school (and I am), then you believe that there is still a role for a teacher to structure learning experiences and assess learning outcomes. As a result, there are times when you want to control permissions, when you don’t want everything to be editable to everyone, when you want to steer a conversation or process in a particular direction. In those cases, the Wave Server as currently being demonstrated will not provide the necessary structure. It is possible that Google will implement fine-grained permissions structures in future versions, but I doubt it. They aren’t trying to create a content management or workflow app. More likely, they will meet these needs through a combination of separation of APIs that can be used by others to develop other capabilities and, more straightforwardly, through export. You produce a document in a Wave, you export it to a web page or an XML document, and you manage it in some other system.
And if you’re a believer in LAMS-like learning design, as I am, then there are times when waves are exactly the opposite direction of where you want to go. I believe that half of good teaching is sequencing experiences such that students are more likely to learn in deep and meaningful ways. (The other half is getting to know your students’ strengths, needs, goals, and progress so that you can ensure the sequencing you are doing will benefit them.) Wave is not designed for that at all. To the contrary, it is designed to get out of the way of free-form communication.
34 items | 6 visits
CMS, course management, learning management, teaching and learning with technology
Updated on Apr 09, 10
Created on Oct 29, 08
Category: Schools & Education
URL: