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  • I wonder how Mixable Perdue can get…

    I spotted this today in the hype of all the Facebook news (it’s getting a more intelligent group feature as opposed to lists). Mixable takes elements from existing web/cloud based systems and rolls them into something that seems very much to be a “public garden” style content/learning management system. The bonus with this system is…

  • Collaboration vs Destination

    Dan Pontefract makes an interesting point in his post about the standalone LMS being dead: But … to change the culture, you also need to drive an organization to believe that training does not only happen in an event (ILT and eLearning) and thus, by keeping the standalone LMS alive and kicking, you exacerbate the…

  • 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…

  • Waving farewell to silos – or are we?

    Google’s Wave is supposed to be the answer to “what would email look like if it were invented today”, but the more I hear and read about it, I think that it might be more “what would interactions on the web be like if they were all invented today”? With the understanding that the ideas…

  • 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…