Open for LearningThe CMS & the OLN
Jon MottAsst. to the Academic VP – Academic Technology
David WileyAssociate Professor, Instructional Psychology & Technology
Brigham Young University
“Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins
on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings,
apparatus, and libraries without
him.”
- President James Garfield
“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will
be relics. Universities
won't survive. It's as large a
change as when we first got the printed book.”
Peter Drucker1997
“Radical changes occurring in a university’s
environment … will require different
institutional arrangements than those found today.”
John Seely Brown2000
“Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning …
The definition of a lecture has become the process in which
the notes of the teacher go to the notes of the student without
going through the brains of either.”
Don Tapscott2009
http://
cms≠erp
“Teaching and learning are not fundamentally transactional.”
- Lanny Arvan
The Web is “a world of pure
connection, free of the arbitrary constraints of
matter, distance and time.”David Weinberger
Data Funnels Learning Webs- Steve Wheeler
“Pointing students to data buckets and conduits we’ve already made for them won’t do.”
- Gardner Campbell
Open Participatory
LearningEcosystem
Brown & Adler2009
cms or pln?
cms
EXTERNALAPPLICATIONS
SIS CMS
GRADEBOOK
CONTENT
ASSESSMENT
COMMUNICATION
COLLABORATION
APIs
CUSTOMINTEGRATION
REDUNDANT & NON-INTEGRATED
APPLICATIONS
Feature Percentage
Course Materials / Documents 85.9%
Gradebook 78.0%
Announcements 68.9%
Email 68.1%
Assessments / Quizzes 30.7%
Discussion Board 13.5%
Other (e.g., Reserve, Dropbox) 12.2%
Virtual Classroom 2.0%
Lightweight Chat 0.4%
Bb Feature Usage @ BYU
transactional
“Faculty use the CMS primarily as an
administrative tool.” – Morgan
The CMS is “fundamentally a conservative technology.” – Milligan
50%
25%
14%
11%
CMS OnlyCMS+Other OnlyNone
Online Technology UsageBYU Faculty Survey, April 2009 (n=254)
TIME
CMS v. PLN
End of the Semester
Lear
ning
Net
wor
k S
ize
TIME
Lear
ning
Net
wor
k S
ize
SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 4 SEMESTER 5 SEMESTER 6
CMS
PLN
CMS v. PLN
36%
pln
orthis
that
privatesecure
reliabilityintegrated
teachersefficiency
structured
OR publicOR openOR flexibilityOR modularOR learnersOR creativityOR authentic
andthis
that
cms+pln=oln
: “School communities will need to develop strategies for building
resilience into their systems and for creating lightweight,
modular infrastructures.”
openmodular
interoperable
oln infrastructure
THE CLOUD
STUDENTCONTEN
T
UNIVERSITY NETWORK
An Open (Institutional) Learning Network
OPENCONTENT
SIS SECUREONLINEASSESSMENT
GRADE
BOOK LEARNINGOUTCOMES
WIKI
PORTAL
UI
STUDENTLEARNINGEPORTFOLIO
PERSONALPUBLISHING
SPACE
SOCIALNETWORKING
APPS
COLLABORATION
TOOLS
UNIVERSITY
CONTENT
WEBAPPS
GROUPS
PROGRAMS
COURSES
IDREPOSITORY
SOCIAL NETWORKING
REGISTRY
SIS
PORTAL / UI
SERVICES ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
GRADEBOOK
PROCTORED TESTING
LIBRARY
SYLLABUS BUILDER
LEARNING OUTCOMES
IN-CLASS RESPONSE
ONLINE ASSESSMENT
CALENDAR
EPORTFOLIO
LMS
STUDENT PLANNING
…
NOTIFICATION & MOBILIZATION
SERVICE
APIsWEB
SERVICES
GROUPMANAGE
R
RSS
WIDGETS
TAGGING
AUTHORPERMISSION
S
EMBEDCODES
iCal
LTI
ASSESSMENT(SCORES)
REPOSITORY
STUDENT LEARNINGACTIVITY
ARTIFACTREPOSITORY
PROGRAM &UNIVERSITY
REPORTS
Course &Program
Gradebooks
Assessment Interfaces
An Integrated Learning Assessment PlatformPROGRAM
EVALUATIONACTIVITY
Cloud-Based Publishing & Organization
Art
ifact
/ P
ort
folio R
eg
istr
ati
on
Artifact Submissio
n
Program LO Definition
Jon Mott, Brigham Young University. (CC-By) Image Credits – VistaIcons.com.
REPORTINGINTERFACE
the next
1000tools
We must solve “the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the
poles of the contradiction so
that both are simultaneously teachers and
students.” Paulo Freire
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