One of the important chooses an LMS supplier has to make is how to deal with mobile delivery. There are two strategies in the industry: full responsive LMS separate apps for different platforms. At the Fusion conference in Las Vegas, D2L made it clear… more »
Tag: "lms"
After an European tender procedure Delft University of Technology has selected a new LMS supplier. After 17 years we are saying goodby to Blackboard and are going to migrate to the cloud-based platform of the Canadian Desire2Learn: Brightspace Learning Sytem. more »
Educause has written an interesting report about the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE). The report explored the gaps between current learning management tools and a digital learning environment that could meet the changing needs of higher education. According to the report the principal functional domains are: more »
D'Arcy Norman started an interesting discussion about the false binary of LMS vs. Open. Here some interesting responses:
Sheila MacNeill: Living with the VLE dictator
Peter Reed: The VLE vs 'Whatever'
Amber Thomas: Why VLEs aren’t evil
Mike… more »
Educause just release a new edition of the 7 Things you should know. This one is about the new directions for the LMS. The abstract: Most of today’s learning management systems were developed in an era when virtually all of higher education was… more »
An interesting blogpost of Edutechnica. Based on open data they created a dataset of all universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia including their enrollment numbers, geographical coordinates, and URLs. That was not al… more »
This is the 100th blogpost that I publish on this blog in 2012. In this blog an overview of the most populair posts and other statistics.
The blogpost were not nicely distributed over the year. Although I published every month at least 5 posts, Decembe… more »
2012 is the year of the MOOC. Audrey Watters has written an very good overview of MOOCs in 2012. In the last year we got the announcements of new platforms to deliver MOOCs. This week the 12 UK universities announced another new platform.
I made a lis… more »
De afgelopen jaren zijn er vele overnames geweest van LMS-systemen. Het grote voorbeeld hiervan is Blackboard met de overnames van Angel Learning en WebCT. Voor eerst zien wij weer een toename van het aantal home-grown platforms. Dit komt vooral door d… more »
Last monday Blackboard did four mayor announcements:
Blackboard Announces Continued Support for ANGEL
Blackboard Appoints Sakai Foundation Board Member Charles Severance to Lead Company’s Sakai Initiatives
Blackboard Acquires Moodlerooms, NetSpot… more »