Moodle and I are just getting to know each other a little better, so Macquarie University's LAMS announcement and Moodle integration caught my attention:
According to the university, this announcement signals the birth of "open source teaching", as the LAMS Community encourages the sharing of digital lesson plans under open content licences, like Creative Commons. It will let teachers find digital lessons plans that are freely available to use and adapt, and they can share their own creations and adaptations to the benefit of all education.Apparently, I am not the only one scratching the top of my head, wondering just exactly what all this means.The LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) Community is based on the open source ".LRN" community platform developed at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). LAMS leader, Macquarie University's Professor James Dalziel, said the LAMS Community is central to the strategy of empowering teachers to transform education using "the revolutionary, digital lesson planning approach offered by LAMS".
- Here is some of the ongoing conversation:
- Loomware thinks it is worth watching
- FREPA.BLOG speaks of the LAMS Community and speaks to a change of emphasis from content to interaction and learning processes.
- Peter Karlsbers debattsidor thinks it is an interesting initiative to study.
- Leigh at Teach and Learn Online offers mixed reviews following his challenge with the installation
- Contacts at Macquarie can be found here.
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