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Upon a new LMS implementation over an institution, it’s not unusual to get detailed instructions from academic leadership, instructors, marketing, or other departments, stating they know their users, how to structure the virtual campus and what must be in a particular place of a given template. It could be a headline, a tab, a button, or a whole page structure. They might be right, of course, but Why don’t ask end-users in the first place to -at least- prove your point?

That’s the so-called UX way: putting user’s experience in the center of every decision-making process.

The ideal academic technology strategy should support the diversity of disciplinary and pedagogical needs.

Institutions aren’t switching learning management systems as often as they used to. What does that mean for companies looking to win new customers?

Introduction to LMSs When engaging in this lesson, be sure to do the following: Follow the links that you are directed to in each section View the videos in their entirety Use the questions to prompt your thinking in your Reflection and Participation Journal What are common LMSs?  Which systems are most often used in…

7 Things to avoid when selecting a learning management system. Learn about responsive design, secure systems, hidden costs of an LMS and contracts

Learning Environment Needs Analysis (LENA) The Learning Environment Needs Analysis (LENA) project is sponsored by the University of Wisconsin System Learn@UW Executive Committee (L@UWEC) and financially supported by all UW institutions through Common Systems Review Group funding. The LENA project is a continuation of a multi‐year UW System effort to: Understand the current and future [...]

A Comparative Study of Strategies and Lessons Learned in Recent MOODLE Training in Tonga, Samoa, Papa New Guinea, Botswana and South Africa Introduction Backgr…

Yesterday, I wrote about my experiences at the recent IMS Learning Impact Leadership Institute. Today, I'm going to write about a sentence that I heard uttered several times while at that summit. One

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I have been tuned into the discussion of the LMS provider Infrastructure by a private equity firm lately because of my exposure to my partner in crimes world of Ed-Tech. I have also written several stories about the LMS providers API in the past, and I find the recent discussion around the economics of the business interesting in several ways. For me, the conversation represents what I consider to be the fundamentals of the API economy, a phrase we like to throw around in the API sector. Most

Instructure is changing definitions of what Canvas is, confusing the subject of whether the LMS market is slowing

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With its LMS contract set to expire, the University of Wisconsin System set out to reimagine its systemwide learning technology platform to better har

Blackboard to be replaced by early 2020.