EDUCAUSE ELI (Education and Learning Initiative) publishes a very useful series of short (two-page) summaries on educational technology topics; several of these relate in some way to conventional Learning Management Systems and their alternatives. Here’s my collection of those 7-Things publications which are somehow related to LMS, ordered by date.
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Navigating the New Learning Ecosystem – May 2012 (PDF)
- Once considered the center of “digital learning,” the LMS is now considered just another component.
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT First-Generation Learning Analytics – December 2011 (PDF)
- An LMS is a primary source of analytics which may be used to understand a student’s learning process
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LMS Evaluation – May 2011 (PDF)
- Evaluating or not, this provides some good LMS background information
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Privacy in Web 2.0 Learning Environments – September 2010 (PDF)
- One of the advantages of the LMS is to maintain privacy
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Personal Learning Environments – May 2009 (PDF)
- Should we switch from a focus on the conventional LMS, an institutional learning environment, towards student-centered, personal environments
7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LMS Alternatives – July 2010 (PDF)
- There are good reasons to not use Moodle or another LMS