Posts Tagged ‘lms’
Blackboard’s business
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 19, 2011
The only strategy Blackboard has is a business one. There's no pedagogy behind it, no concern for minds or understanding, no teacherly soul.— Mark Sample (@samplereality) September 17, 2011 I read this thanks to a retweet from @EDTECHHULK. As I have met with Bb folks, I can say this is not entirely true. Mostly true, [...]
LMS not lifelong
Posted by: ashleytan on: September 1, 2011
by kreg.steppe I have written before that I generally do not favour LMS because they are closed systems. When you are done with a course, you are DONE with it. You do not have access to it later. Providers of LMS will say that it is up to a systems administrator to make those course available. [...]
No time, nowhere!
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 17, 2011
by bionicteaching Oh, Blackboard, how you amuse me! Granted, the cancellation may not have been entirely BB’s fault, but in the larger scheme of things, anytime-anywhere learning has been absent because of limited affordances of the LMS.
Fingernails on blackboard 2
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 8, 2011
by circulating There are some things to like about our implementation of Blackboard (BB) as an LMS. Database integration. It is relatively easy to create courses in BB because the entire student teacher database can be divided into tutorial groups and assigned to courses. This feature is convenient. But you can also do this yourself with [...]
Fingernails on blackboard 1
Posted by: ashleytan on: July 7, 2011
by TheGiantVermin Those old enough to remember what fingernails raking a blackboard sounds like might cringe at the recollection. To be honest, I cringed a little when I met with the folks from Blackboard (BB) twice last month. To be fair, I feel that way about LMS in general and not just BB in particular. [...]
Walled garden
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 17, 2011
by Joachim S. Müller I read RRW’s article on Instructure’s Canvas, a cloud-and-browser-based LMS that claims to want to “get rid of the walled garden”. I could not have described LMS as a walled garden better: That walled garden approach to learning management systems means that whatever content students and instructors upload – whether it’s handouts, [...]
Blow up your LMS
Posted by: ashleytan on: May 6, 2010
[image source, used under CC licence] Jane Hart asks “What is the future of the LMS?“ I’ll say that if it remains as is, it has none. That’s my short answer. I’ve said enough before [1] [2]. For a longer answer, see Jane’s blog.
Insidious pedagogy?
Posted by: ashleytan on: April 15, 2010
[image source, used under CC licence] I have mixed thoughts on this article, Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching by Lisa Lane. The article is based on the premise that course management systems (CMS) like Blackboard have an inherent pedagogy, which is limited to traditional forms of teaching, and this in turn impacts [...]
Why Web 2.0?
Posted by: ashleytan on: August 18, 2008
I avoid Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Blackboard, WebCT, and Moodle. Even one of the greatest champions of LMS, Martin Weller, a professor of educational technology at the Open University, UK, questions their purpose in this day and age. Weller contends that LMS “embodies the wrong metaphor. It seeks to realise the principles of hierarchy, [...]
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