LAMS

Report on ’Sharing Learning Designs: Lessons from the LAMS Community’, presented by James Dalziel, Macquarie University, Australia

I'll begin by noting that James’s presentation was not designed for an audience of ‘specialists’ or LAMS practitioners - many attendees were totally new to LAMS, or else use ED-MEDIA as their annual opportunity to glean news on the latest updates. James began by introducing LAMS, explaining that it is a toolset for adding structure / scaffolding to the learning process, and in particular, building a framework for educational activities "that a simple list of course resources on a [web] page [or LMS site] doesn’t have".

In this 54-minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, we'll hear from James Dalziel in a session entitled Integrating Innovative E-Learning Systems: Challenges and Solutions from LAMS. Dalziel discusses challenges and solutions to integrating e-learning systems based on experiences from the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS). You can download a copy of the presenter's slides here to accompany the audio.

In this 16 minute recording, we'll hear from James Dalziel, Director of the Macquarie ELearning Centre of Excellence. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on patents, open source and LAMS.

For more information about LAMS, visit
http://www.lamsfoundation.org

The latest version of Moodle has gone live. There are a whole swathe of updates and improvements, but the big ones for me are:

Integration of LAMS

It's great to see people and projects working together to answer the needs of a community of practice.

Full native support for the IMS Learning Design specification

Interoperability, interoperability, interoperability.

Blogs

...but then, maybe I'm just a blogging-type person.

Check out the full announcement.