History of the Learning Management System

IP&T 692RFall 2013

Jon MottChief Learning Officer, Learning Objects

Visiting Instructor, Brigham Young University

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1996

1997

cms=erp?

the cms in thebroader

infrastructure

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a brief history

learners

learners

schools

educational institutions.

the end of learning as usual?

integrations,customizations &

standards

Learning Activity,

Lesson, or Course

SCORM Compliant Package

LMS

commoncartridge

proprietaryintegrations

TOOLS

lti

TOOL A

TOOL B

TOOL C

TOOL XYZ

EVENT NOTIFICATION

LAUNCH

• SESSION• RESOURCE LINK• MANAGEMENT• TOOL SETTINGS• OUTCOMES

TOOL PROVIDERS TOOL CONSUMERS

PROFILE

WEBSERVICES

TOOL PROXY RUNTIME

ADMINISTRATOR

USER

LTI SERVICES

qtilis

epubsif

tin can api

case study

Blackboard @ BYU• Launched CourseInfo in 1999• 1,683 Unique Courses Fall 2008• ≈ 5,457 Course Sections Fall 2008• 48,878 Active Users (Provo, Hawaii & LDSBC

Campuses)• 17,767 Avg Daily Unique User Logins Fall 2008• ≈ 16 Mbps Bandwidth Usage• 2,137 GB Storage (1,369 GB Content, 768 GB

Database)• 2,279,255 Completed Assessments Fall 2008• 14,296 Avg Monthly Discussion Board Posts Fall 2008

the“quiz crisis”

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

EXTERNALAPPLICATIONS

SIS CMS

GRADEBOOK

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

COMMUNICATION

COLLABORATION

APIs

CUSTOMINTEGRATION

REDUNDANT & NON-INTEGRATED

APPLICATIONS

50%

25%

14%

11%

CMS OnlyCMS+Other OnlyNone

Online Technology UsageBYU Faculty Survey, April 2009 (n=254)

cms usagestudies

“Faculty use the CMS primarily as an

administrative tool.” – Morgan

The CMS is “fundamentally a conservative technology.” – Milligan

limits of the LMS model

“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

TIME

CMS v. PLN

End of the Semester

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SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 SEMESTER 3 SEMESTER 4 SEMESTER 5 SEMESTER 6

CMS

PLN

CMS v. PLN

Data Funnels Learning Webs- Steve Wheeler

“Pointing students to data buckets and conduits we’ve already made for them won’t do.”

- Gardner Campbell

The original design of the LMS was transactional and largely administrative in nature, hence the “M” in “LMS.” The function of the traditional LMS is to simplify how learning is scheduled, deployed, and tracked as a means to organize curricula and manage learning materials.

- Lou Pugiese

: “School communities will need to develop strategies for building

resilience into their systems and for creating lightweight,

modular infrastructures.”

Love / Hate

Users WhoLove TheirCMS

Users WhoHate Their

CMS

Users WhoWant to Switch

plns

the new landscape

University

Support ServicesBookstore

IT InfrastructureLibraries

Academic Departments

Faculty Students

University

Support ServicesBookstoreLibraries

IT InfrastructureAcademic Departments

Faculty Students

Web 2.0 Apps

Social Networks

Open Content

MassCollaboration

etc.

the new landscape

University Portal

CONTENT

Gradebook

Assessment

Web PagesWeb PagesWeb PagesWeb Pages

Portfolios

NEWTOOLS

the vle of the future

Open Participatory

LearningEcosystem

Brown & Adler2009

“and”models

privatesecure

reliabilityintegrated

teachersefficiency

structured

OR publicOR openOR flexibilityOR modularOR learnersOR creativityOR authentic

olns

THE CLOUD

STUDENTCONTEN

T

UNIVERSITY NETWORK

An Open (Institutional) Learning Network

OPENCONTENT

SIS SECUREONLINEASSESSMENT

GRADE

BOOKLEARNINGOUTCOMES

WIKI

PORTAL

UI

STUDENTLEARNINGEPORTFOLIO

PERSONALPUBLISHING

SPACE

SOCIALNETWORKING

APPS

COLLABORATION

TOOLS

UNIVERSITY

CONTENT

Blackboard is trying to keep up.

Michael L. Chasen, the company's chief executive, has told The Chronicle that the latest version of the software integrates some Web 2.0 tools and still offers plenty of features that blogging packages can't match, like online gradebooks.

moocs(& oocs)

=the new lms?

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