The JISC evaluation of LAMS which seeks to answer the question, "Does the use of a learning design tool such as LAMS support effective practice in designing for learning?" Seb Schmoller summarizes: "According to the report, only 21 practitioners reported back to the evaluation team during the evaluation, and of these, 8 were not part of the original 40. Of the 21 respondents, only 13 had actually run (or attempted to run) a LAMS learning sequence." Oh, and the answer to the question? Schmoller's verdict: "maybe". 42 page PDF (which is about 2 pages for each person who actually ran the software). I have run LAMS myself (on my laptop) and while it works OK it seems to require a lot of overhead for what it does (which means you probably shouldn't run it on a laptop). As a student I would feel frustrated because it's always telling me I must do this and I must not do that - it's a real stickler for sequence. On the other hand, it took me in the range of 30 seconds to set up a complete interactive online lesson.
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