According to the latest Educause Review - July/August 2006 issue sounds like everyone wants a 'mash-up' for their future L/CMS. The article, "Managing Courses, Defining Learning: What Faculty, Students, and Administrators Want" reviewed higher education faculty, administrators, and students during 2005 to see what they like-dislike in their current L/CMS and to see what they dreamed future systems should incorporate.
"Stakeholders across the spectrum want an anytime, all-the-time, personalized experience of teaching and learning— one that utilizes all the currently available social tools, intuitive tools, smart agents, and interactive environments of Web2.0
and social computing."
Faculty said they want more technology options built into the L/CMS like YackPack, where they can leave audio messages for their students; IM- so they can instantly connect to students or Skype where they can conference or chat individually; collaborative tools like Flickr, Facebook, Blinklist, StumbleUpon; and SMS- (commonly know as text-messaging) to text students about important dates or projects due.
I agree- create L/CMSs all inclusive so faculty don't have to add these extra tools to communicate with learners in their course content. Faculty can link to these tools now in their courses on Moodle, but they have to set them up all individually. Putting all the pieces together in one place would make setting up your course in an L/CMS easy-peasy!
Though I have to disagree with the article's comments on open-source L/CMSs. I have used Moodle for the last 2 years and we do not have to cross our fingers and hope it works; it works great. We only have to hold our breath for other more important crisis'.
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