Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Learning Management Systems: Are We There Yet?

Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Interview with Andrew W. Mellon Foundation vice president Ira Fuchs which tackles head on the question of why learning objects have yet to be widely adopted. "All I can say," he writes, "is that technology is making it easier to package, search for, and utilize learning objects. But whether we will ever completely overcome the NIH, 'Not invented here,' obstacle, only time will tell." But, "However, a new business model will be required. The model we have today is that you buy a software black box and you get tied to it. If you want extensions, you hope that they’ll be in a future release. Further, there’s no ability to leverage the brilliant minds on all our campuses to make these systems better. We want a different model, one in which we can collaborate among our campuses on improvements." Via Timsoft.

Today: 1 Total: 1096 [Direct link] [Share]

Image from the website


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2024
Last Updated: Apr 19, 2024 10:32 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.

Force:yes