1. W(h)ither the LMS? Michael Feldstein 8.5.2010

2. The Genesis of Online Learning CC: adebnd

3. In the Beginning, There Was eMail CC: nashworld

4. and Shared Files CC: redjar

5. Then We Saw Groupware Julian Robicheax

6. and We Genuflected CC: Camera Wences

7. The Modern LMS CC: redjar

8. Characteristics of Todays LMS

• Private

• Class-centric

• Role-focused

• Self-contained

• Institution-oriented

• 1990s architecture

9. But the World Has Changed 2010 architecture 1990s architecture Inter- and extra-institutional Institution-oriented Integrated Self-contained Relationship-focused Role-focused Person-centric Class-centric Permeable Private Need Have

10. Should We Throw the LMS Away? CC: Axel Schwenke

11. Step 1 Internet architecture Enterprise architecture Inter- and extra-institutional Institution-oriented Integrated Self-contained Relationship-focused Role-focused Person-centric Class-centric Permeable Private Need Have

12. Two Integrations That Work Today CC: _ Yoshi _

13. Learning Information Services Student Admin

14. SIS Person External Academic System ( LMS, Social Network, Wiki, etc.) Course Enrollment IMS LIS 2.0: Logical Architecture Grades/ Outcomes

15. LIS Integrations

• Existing Today

• Oracle SAIP (released Aug 2008)

• Sakai (available in all distributions)

• Moodle (only via Moodlerooms)

• Schools on Facebook

• In Progress

• Sungard

• Desire2Learn

• Pearson (eCollege and MyLabs)

• Planned

• Blackboard

16. Learning Tool Integration

• Problem: Need to integrate the long tail of learning tools with the LMS

• Solution

• • Build a standard plug-in for all LMSs

• • Tool and Content Providers can build one integration and use it in any LMS that supports the standard

• • Start simple and then expand feature sets to allow market to adjust over time and insure that engineering due diligence is being done phased release

17. LEARNING TOOL L T I PHP Java App Engine Wookie... ...

18. Certified - LMS

• PowerLink for Blackboard WebCT v8

• Building Block for Blackboard Learn v9

• Desire2Learn Learning Environment v8.4

• Desire2Learn Learning Environment v9.0

• Jenzabar JICS v7.2

• Learning Objects Campus Pack v4

• Sakai v2.7

• Sakai 3 v0.4

19. Certified - Tool

• Learning Objects Campus Pack v4

• SpACE v0.5 (Spatial Activities in Course Environments, map application)

• WebPA v1 (online peer assessment application)

20. Caution: Demo Ahead CC: mag3737

21. Oracle HQ Unicon HQ U Michigan Peoplesoft Campus Solutions Integration Broker SAIP LIS Sakai CLE Sakora LIS BLTI Portlet Wordpress MediaWiki IMS BLTI IMS LIS BLTI BLTI

22. More Integration Needed

23. BUT Integration Isnt Everything CC: urbanwoodchuck

24. Hard to Bolt On

• Permeability

• Person-centric

• Relationship-focused

• Inter- and extra-institutional

• 2010 architecture

25. Blank Sheets of Paper

• Agilix BrainHoney

• Instructure Canvas

• NIXTY

• Sakai 3

26. About Sakai 3

• Complete ground-up rewrite (and rethink)

• Heavily based on existing open source projects

• Commercial-friendly open source license

• Heavily standards-based (e.g., JCR, OSGi, OpenSocial, BLTI, LIS, etc.)

• Service-Oriented

• Multi-tenant

• Design-driven

27. Sakai 3 Themes

• Everything is Content

• Everything is Wikied

• Everything is Social

• Everything is Permeable

• Everything is Widgets

28. Sakai 3 Status

• Several years in incubation

• Deployed for non-course sites at Cambridge

• Managed project has begun

• • 12 months with quarterly milestones

• • Participants include NYU, Cambridge, Berkeley, Charles Sturt, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Cape Town, Stanford

• • NYU, Berkeley, and Cambridge all deploying soon

29. We Need a Bridge from Old to New CC: Daquella manera

30. Standards Save the Day

31. To Sum Up

• Current-generation LMSs are old designs built to meet old needs

• The LMS needs to evolve or be replaced

• I believe it can evolve and is evolving

• Current-generation systems are evolving primarily through better integration support

• Next-generation systems being built right now will further this evolution

• Current-generation and next-generation systems will need to co-exist and integrate for some time to come

• The LMS also needs to integrate with the rest of the academic enterprise

32. Questions? CC: CRASH:candy