While the LMS has become central to the business of colleges and universities, it has also become a symbol of the higher learning status quo. Many students, teachers, instructional technologists, and administrators consider the LMS too inflexible and are turning to the web for tools that support their everyday communication, productivity, and collaboration needs. Blogs, wikis, social networking sites, microblogging tools, and other web-based applications are supplanting the teaching and learning tools previously found only inside the LMS.
Given our conversation last week, I thought this piece by Jon Mott would be an appropriate companion to his talk from OpenEd 2009.
Jon Mott says
Thanks for the shout-out Cole. If you have any questions about my piece or the talk, I’d be happy to answer them. I’m posting this here so I’ll be notified if there’s any discussion. I’ll do my best to keep up with it if there is any.
Cole W. Camplese says
Hi Jon! Thanks for stopping by our course space. This week coming up is Spring Break, so conversations here will be light but the week after I suspect the conversation will start again. Would you be at all interested in stopping by via iChat AV or other computer mediated technology during class in the coming weeks? I think we might be able to have a rich discussion. Talk to you soon!