News, reflections and information on the world of Learning Management Systems.
Friday May 24th 2013

Categories

‘Startups’ Archives

Could @KhanAcademy have created the ultimate LMS for Mathematics?

Could @KhanAcademy have created the ultimate LMS for Mathematics?

If you haven't seen this wonderful presentation by Salman Khan at TED this year you should definitely watch it.  At 12:30 into the video Salman starts to showcase the custom tracking dashboards that they utilize as a school piloting his [...]

17 #Instructure video tutorials by @mpkisow

17 #Instructure video tutorials by @mpkisow

Mike Kisow has posted a few Instructure Canvas course building tutorials at Vimeo.com which highlight some of the features of the fledgling LMS. All told there are 17 videos highlighting everything on the LMS from course construction/creation, to [...]

Can Sophia.org rate learning content for millions of learners?

Can Sophia.org rate learning content for millions of learners?

Seemingly a huge undertaking, Sophia, a new social teaching and learning platform is aiming to vet user collected, organized and created content into well-vetted, reviewed and rated learning objects for consumption by learners around the world. [...]