- Nov 2017
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www.educause.edu www.educause.edu
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Our vision around the phrase reclaim is at least in part inspired by the documented work that Boone Gorges and D'Arcy Norman have been doing to take back their online presence from third-party services since 2011. While their approach is far more drastic than what we are advocating, Project Reclaim represents an ethos that is diametrically opposed to the innovation outsourcing that is prevalent in higher education IT shops at the moment.
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mandate the use of "learning management systems."
Therein lies the rub. Mandated systems are a radically different thing from “systems which are available for use”. This quote from the aforelinked IHE piece is quite telling:
“I want somebody to fight!” Crouch said. “These things are not cheap -- 300 grand or something like that? ... I want people to want it! When you’re trying to buy something, you want them to work at it!”
In the end, it’s about “procurement”, which is quite different from “adoption” which is itself quite different from “appropriation”.
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Five Arguments against the Learning Management System
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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Why, they would build an LMS. They did build an LMS. Blackboard started as a system designed by a professor and a TA at Cornell University. Desire2Learn (a.k.a. Brightspace) was designed by a student at the University of Waterloo. Moodle was the project of a graduate student at Curtin University in Australia. Sakai was built by a consortium of universities. WebCT was started at the University of British Columbia. ANGEL at Indiana University.
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Let's imagine a world in which universities, not vendors, designed and built our online learning environments.
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the backbone of for a distributed network of personal learning environments
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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Feldstein's Law: Any educational app that is actively developed for long enough and has a large enough user base will become indistinguishable from a badly designed LMS.
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- Jun 2016
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Much of it sounds like Bob Squillace’s post following #OpenApereo16.
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manual.softcover.io manual.softcover.io
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Hartl’s Tenth Rule of Typesetting Any sufficiently complicated typesetting system contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of LATEX.
Sounds like Norman’s Law.
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humanitiesinpractice.blogspot.com humanitiesinpractice.blogspot.com
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Most LMS environments are not designed as places where students do work; rather, they cater to the needs of instructors.
Discuss.
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- Dec 2015
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www.beyondlms.org www.beyondlms.org
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The Learning Management System (LMS) pervades the EdTech space.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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course design is more important than the LMS
In all the platform news, we can talk about “learning management” in view of instructional and course design. But maybe it even goes further than design into a variety of practices which aren´t through-designed.
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logical home for an open source project of just about any learning tool
Yet again, we’re reminded of Norman’s Law.
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- Nov 2015
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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students’ blogs to be the LMS
D’Arcy Norman, again.
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