1. Mr. Thomas Learning Environment
Project LMS course
 My LEP would be a MOOC or Massive open online
course. I would design this course to be a self paced
non-credit, free admission course for anyone who
wanted to learn about solar photovoltaic energy and its
applications. The basic learning systems would be
constructed upon a LMS hosted in the clouds and a
PLE would be required for each learner to be able to
access the course, contribute feedback, collaborate
with others and to prove mastery of the material. This
is how it would look virtually.
Christopher Thomas. IX. 564. Design of Learning Environments. Dr. Dove. 1

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3. Benefits and Challenges of Hosting
a MOOC
 Open access learners  Learners should have a
promotes connectivity basic digital level of
among participates in a knowledge
course  The possibility for the
 Learning occurs in an course to take on an
informal setting alternate objective due to
 All work, thought and the free flowing nature of
instructions can be MOOC’s
shared, critiqued and view  Technical difficulties
by all participants associated w/reliance on
 MOOC’s are free for all computers and the
who want to attend internet
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4. Learning tools, communication tools, productivity tools, student involvement
tools, collaboration tools for synchronous and asynchronous learning.
 Communication tools will utilize the basic email that all students have available.
 Productivity tools will include but not be limited to the following.
 Student involvement tools will allow the student access onto various platforms these
tools include mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets as well as laptops and
Mac products.
 Collaboration tools for synchronous and asynchronous learning
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5. Support Tools Some of the
Administrative tools I
will be utilizing are the
reports that are
available with Haiku
LMS
Course deliver will
be via the clouds
Haiku is hosted
entirely in the
Curriculum clouds.
design is as easy
as creating anew
course naming
it and then
uploading
content from
your LOR. 5
My Haiku Course Retrieved from:http//www.myhaikucourse.com

6. Initial Hardware requirements
 Hardware requirement for my Distance learning environment
would include but not be limited to a land line phone. ($1200.00 a
year)
 A Dell PowerEdge server with Dual-Core processing power, built-
in hardware virtualization technology and fully-buffered DIMM
memory. While the LMS will be in the clouds a server will assist in
managing the link between me and the LMS. ($1500.00)
 #6 18 or higher-pixel cameras with tripod to create movies for
learning in a web 2.0 virtual environment. ($2400.00)
 #1 17”Laptop Sony vaio with i7 core processor and minimum 2TB
external hard drive. ($790.00)
 At least 2- interactive whiteboards for diagramming functions.
($3000.00)
 Wireless microphone and headset. ($250.00)
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7. Cost of SaaS (software as a service) will depend on various variables.
See below. In the beginning our cost are minimum, and grows with
class size.
Currently we are using 4.6MB of
2GB of storage available to us to
host #2-courses. I can create 3-
more courses before a
subscription fee is encouraged.
Ref: My Haiku Course Retrieved from: http//www.myhaikucourse.com 7

8. Growth Projections for the first
year
100%
% of Cost increase from start
90%
80%
70%
60% Series 3
50%
40% % of Cost per term
30% increase
20% Projected Growth in %
10%
0%
1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
Growth over first year
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9.  The primary support that student will need
will be technical support for getting logged
on, and anything else needed the LMS has a
host of answers and support features.
Reference: My Haiku Course Retrieved from: http//www.myhaikucourse.com 9

10. My LMS embraces the principles of simplicity and connectivity as such learners from
around the world will be encouraged to create PLE and use mobile application to access
the course content, connect with others and collaborate on projects that promote
sustainable energy usage through access to ideas that move people and shape lives.
Reference: My Haiku Course Retrieved from: http//www.myhaikucourse.com
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