Learning Management Systems: Are We There Yet?
Syllabus,
Aug 13, 2004
Interview with Andrew W. Mellon Foundation vice president Ira Fuchs which tackles head on the question of why learning objects have yet to be widely adopted. "All I can say," he writes, "is that technology is making it easier to package, search for, and utilize learning objects. But whether we will ever completely overcome the NIH, 'Not invented here,' obstacle, only time will tell." But, "However, a new business model will be required. The model we have today is that you buy a software black box and you get tied to it. If you want extensions, you hope that they’ll be in a future release. Further, there’s no ability to leverage the brilliant minds on all our campuses to make these systems better. We want a different model, one in which we can collaborate among our campuses on improvements." Via Timsoft.
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