Final Josh Kim Counterpoint Educause December 09

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Welcome. Here are the outlines of our debate. Stand back and let the audience read 11/02/09

We’ve been arguing about the LMS, Web 2.0, and open source vs. proprietary now for a couple of years. The argument has not gotten us very far. Where we should be talking about learning, we often talk about philosophy. Ask the audience to think about the philosophy they bring to this discussion 11/02/09

This is not a debate about features, or ROI, or even really about the merits of an enterprise system. 11/02/09

This debate is really about attention. Attention is the scarcest commodity that we will bring back to campus. We have plenty of ideas, theories, goals, and skills – what we lack is time. The reality is that resources are so limited that we can only do a few things with learning technology and the LMS. We have to make choices. In this debate I’m going to try to convince about some choices I think you should make. I’m going to try to persuade you where to devote your attention around the LMS. 11/02/09

The reality is that almost none of us are going to jettison the lms. Some of you may be thinking of swapping your lms – I’m going to try and convince you to be cautious. But the lms is entrenched….and that is a good 11/02/09

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Reduce the brain space taken up by thinking about your LMS 11/02/09

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Final Josh Kim Counterpoint Educause December 09 - Presentation Transcript

This session will compare and contrast approaches in the use of learning management technologies in higher education: an enterprise model where a learning management system is centrally provided versus a consumer model where faculty are encouraged to use a wide variety of available Web 2.0 tools.
debate is not about philosophy
debate is not about technology
debate is about attention
the lms is entrenched…and for good reasons
SIS integration
grade management
assessment
course reserves
but that the lms is middleware
middleware is vital……. but it should not take much of our attention
recommendations:
do nothing
or at least………
go very slowly in: switching to a new LMS or doing major version updates
focus attention (and resources) on:
Learning tools that are: open & relevant
and can integrate with your LMS
open blogs
open wikis
open publishing platforms
easy authoring tools
switching (often upgrading) costs too high and your LMS is cheap
ignore your LMS
attention to tools for openness and relevancy