Category: Management Systems

  • The tool of our tools

    First Monday has an interesting article by Lisa Lane (Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching, First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 – 5 October 2009) that starts off with an interesting quote: But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. — Henry David Thoreau Lane continues with a couple of other…

  • Support the workflow

    A brain dump thinking about how LMSs should be support. Rather than looking at the software, staff and systems to add more to fill the holes that are identified by a review. Perhaps it would make more sense to look at the work flow and see how it needs to be modified or supported. I…

  • LDB Redux

    It seems that my posts on the Lock Down Browser are very popular these days (mid terms must be coming), but it is interesting what has come out of some of the comments – a number of ways to defeat the system. Most obviously, the easiest way is to have another machine or internet device…

  • Using Moodle, The Book…?

    If you are still reading manuals “old school”, there is a print (Jason Cole and Helen Foster, O’Rielly) version as well, but the latest version of the Using Moodle book is online (and likely has been for a month… but what work gets done is December right?).

  • 2008 Predictions

    This is one of the few last posts of the year as I take a bit of a break and as has become tradition, here are my predictions for the coming year and a review from what I said last year. So here we go. Social Systems Advertising Buyout Search I think that this coming…