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The Sakai Community is pleased to announce the release of the Sakai OAE version 1.4.0. Via Mark Smithers 
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Peter Mellow
June 13, 2012 10:45 PM
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The LMS was once the undisputed center of the digital learning ecosystem. But on many campuses, the situation has changed such that the campus online learning environment might be better viewed as a continuum, with the LMS at one end and a student’s own collection of applications, tools, and websites at the other.
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Kim Flintoff
May 29, 2012 12:07 AM
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Schoology is a learning management system (LMS) and social network that makes it easy to create and share academic content.
Schoology offers education without walls
With Schoology, educators can do things as simple as posting assignments, quizzes and links to additional resources or as sophisticated as conducting online courses, providing one-on-one remediation, or hosting discussions.
Schoology connects students and parents to educators and learning resources anytime, anywhere in a safe, secure online environment.
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Learning Futures
from eLearning 21C
April 16, 2012 10:25 PM
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Edmodo hopes to make the move from "app" to "platform," with the opening today of its API to third-party Web developers.
At launch, Edmodo boasts some 35 partners who have already developed apps for the new platform -- these include Mathalicious, Late Nite Labs, Desmos, BrainNook, Aviary and (30) others. Using the Edmodo API, these companies can now connect their own apps to the Edmodo social network, meaning that they can tap into Edmodo's badge functionality, feeds, assignments, grade book and so on. These apps are integrated with Edmodo, in terms of single sign-on, analytics, and -- and this is key for both Edmodo users and app developers -- roles (that is, who's a teacher, who's a student, what grade is the student, who's a parent, who's a principal and so on).
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Kim Flintoff
July 18, 2012 10:14 AM
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Not to be confused with Coursera, Coursemodo is a new interactive learning management system emerging from stealth mode today which focuses on student engagement in the classroom.
Currently, that platform includes four key components: a web-enabled application which can be used from any Internet-connected device, including phones, tablets or computers; a polling feature for getting instant feedback from students; a quizzes feature which supports instant grading an export to a teacher’s preferred LMS, and an announcements feature for teacher-student communication which extends outside of course hours through SMS messaging.
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Peter Mellow
from Connected Learning
June 15, 2012 3:13 AM
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EdWeek’s Ian Quillen reviewed a Don McIntosh report on the learning management systems (LMS) market. Adaptive content, social learning, smart engines, lots of open content, and an explosion of mobile apps are expanding aspirations.
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Kim Flintoff
June 8, 2012 11:15 PM
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I have a hard truth to share with you. Our learning management systems are letting us down. They are not getting the job done.
The slow rise of social learning
Over the last decade, the internet has gone from a primarily static content distribution system, to a social publishing, communication and sharing environment. As we’ve seen this “social web” develop, several social learning theoretical frameworks have been developed and tested, including connectivism, social constructivism and the conversational framework. These pedagogical models of learning remain at the periphery and have yet to achieve mainstream adoption.
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Kim Flintoff
May 2, 2012 10:13 PM
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There have been some major changes in the world of LMSs in the last year or so, and at the same time a whole new range of web 2.0 tools are now available that are being used more and more by instructors. There are some common questions floating around:
How are LMSs changing?Should institutions be getting out of LMSs?If institutions continue to use LMSs, how do these new web tools relate to LMSs? Can these new tools be incorporated within LMSs?What are the implications for teaching and learning of these developments?What are the institutional implications?
Note that the focus was not on which are the best LMSs and how do you choose, because many institutions now have established processes for doing this. The focus instead was on the bigger question: what will be the role, if any, for LMSs in the future?
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Learning Futures
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April 16, 2012 10:23 PM
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A while back here on e-Literate, Phil wrote a post called Farewell to the Enterprise LMS, Greetings to the Learning Platform. In it, he wrote,
In my opinion, when we look back on market changes, 2011 will stand out as the year when the LMS market passed the point of no return and changed forever. What we are now seeing are some real signs of what the future market will look like, and the actual definition of the market is changing. We are going from an enterprise LMS market to a learning platform market.
What I mean by ‘enterprise LMS’ is the legacy model of the LMS as a smaller, academically-facing version of the ERP. This model was based on monolithic, full-featured software systems that could be hosted on-site or by a managed hosting provider. A ‘learning platform’, by contrast, does not contain all the features in itself and is based on cloud computing – multi-tenant, software as a service (SaaS).
There tends to be a pendulum swings in technology. In the old days, there were dumb terminals, with all the business logic residing on the mainframe. Then came the PC revolution, pushing functionality out to the edges of the network. Next came the internet, driving functionality back to the server. And now we have apps. Similarly, in educational technology, we started with a few tools, moved to an all-in-one, all-you-can-eat LMS model, and now are moving back toward more specialized systems. And one of the questions platform developers and teachers a like are asking is how much functionality do you really need? Is it just WordPress? Is it WordPress plus Google Docs? Is it WordPress, Google Docs, and grade book? Is it a simple LMS with only a handful of tools and an app store? There are lots of different models.
