Learning%20Management%20Systems%20Summit,%20April%202001

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Learning Management Systems Summit, April 2001
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LMS SummitPedagogy Driving Development

• Objectives Generative Phase
• Identify principles of teaching and learning that
  an LMS should proactively encourage
• Assemble examples that demonstrate the form
  implementation of TL principles might take
• Designate most important attributes for an LMS
  for initial release
• Process
• Pre-meeting email discussion
• Small group refinement of preliminary themes
• Selected issues from research, libraries, system
  builders, and faculty users

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LMS Pre-Meeting Themes

• Assessment formative evaluation. Feedback.
  Multiple levels.
• Collaborative Learning/Community Building
• Concept Mapping making visible structure
• Constructivist scaffolds, novice vs masters
  learners, build portfolios.

• Individualized/Adaptive Learning
• Reusability make earning objects accessible
  across courses and across institutions
• System design scalability, integration, reduce
  costs, drive innovation
• Usability/Faculty Development

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Observations

• LMS Developers
• Look for the sweet spot - Carl Berger, UMich
• Researchers
• Generalize form, customize content Diana
  Laurillard, Open University UK
• Librarians
• Leverage existing digital asset management
  projects John Ockerbloom, U Penn
• Faculty
• Greatest faculty constraint is time Steve
  Lerman, MIT Faculty Chair

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Selected Critical Features V.1

1. Marketing plans and support
2. Pedapoint wizards to support pedagogically
   sound course structure and content creation
3. Modularity/Glue
4. Searching Multimedia and good representation of
   what is contained
5. Collaboration across institutions
6. Learner, faculty, institutional portfolios
7. Tools that allow easy migration of existing
   materials
8. Library of best practices

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Summary of LMS Summit

• We have established and must retain a pedagogical
  basis
• We will build aiming to deliver something
  pragmatically useful
• This is an organic community effort
• And its now underway!

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Views from the Summit