Comments on: New Vision LMS and Personal Learning Environments http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2009/10/16/new-vision-lms-and-personal-learning-networks/ Proud Sponsor of Your Future Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Crosslin http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2009/10/16/new-vision-lms-and-personal-learning-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-1802 Matt Crosslin Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:57:27 +0000 http://www.edugeekjournal.com/?p=472#comment-1802 I am blending the ideas together, too - so that is great by me :) Some of this is really rough draft kind of stuff, so I am not sure about all the logistics. But it seems like you are on the right idea. I need to get a diagram about this, I think. The New Vision started off basically taking student work out of the LMS prison and getting it out there on the web, thus enabling students to use their PLE/PLNs as they see fit. This new idea would go even a step further - taking the New Vision idea off of any one particular platform and letting instructors choose a PTE that aggregates student PLE/PLNs. Different instructors at the same institution could choose different New Vision-style PTEs, each one tailored to their class needs or personal preferences. Students would still need to prove that they are who they say they are, and that they are authorized to take the course. So some kind of system that speaks to the PTE would need to be devised, one that says "here are the names of all the students in your course" and then, when a student signs in, it says "yes, this is the student in question." Once logged in to the PTE, students would then start adding RSS feeds, embed codes, widgets, links, etc to the objects from their PLE. I am blending the ideas together, too – so that is great by me :) Some of this is really rough draft kind of stuff, so I am not sure about all the logistics. But it seems like you are on the right idea. I need to get a diagram about this, I think.

The New Vision started off basically taking student work out of the LMS prison and getting it out there on the web, thus enabling students to use their PLE/PLNs as they see fit. This new idea would go even a step further – taking the New Vision idea off of any one particular platform and letting instructors choose a PTE that aggregates student PLE/PLNs. Different instructors at the same institution could choose different New Vision-style PTEs, each one tailored to their class needs or personal preferences. Students would still need to prove that they are who they say they are, and that they are authorized to take the course. So some kind of system that speaks to the PTE would need to be devised, one that says “here are the names of all the students in your course” and then, when a student signs in, it says “yes, this is the student in question.” Once logged in to the PTE, students would then start adding RSS feeds, embed codes, widgets, links, etc to the objects from their PLE.

]]> By: Chris Duke http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2009/10/16/new-vision-lms-and-personal-learning-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-1801 Chris Duke Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:42:49 +0000 http://www.edugeekjournal.com/?p=472#comment-1801 I don't quite have a coherent thought around this just yet but want to share my first reaction. When I finished reading the last paragraph, the first thing that jumps to mind is open social, open authentication (OAuth) etc. I think that definitely ties into this somehow, just not sure how. Something along the lines of using OAuth to connect an individual's personal accounts to institutional LDAP servers and an institutional learning management database or tool of some sort? Something that would allow learners/teachers to specify what tools they're actively using for a given course? That information is then made available internally via the course system? As an instructor, if I ask learners to set up a blog, they can choose whatever system they want and indicate in the course system where that page is and on the instructor backend, I can then access that page and feeds as needed. (As I think too much about this, I'm starting to mentally blend in what I've already heard you talk about and present ;-) -Chris I don’t quite have a coherent thought around this just yet but want to share my first reaction. When I finished reading the last paragraph, the first thing that jumps to mind is open social, open authentication (OAuth) etc. I think that definitely ties into this somehow, just not sure how.

Something along the lines of using OAuth to connect an individual’s personal accounts to institutional LDAP servers and an institutional learning management database or tool of some sort? Something that would allow learners/teachers to specify what tools they’re actively using for a given course? That information is then made available internally via the course system? As an instructor, if I ask learners to set up a blog, they can choose whatever system they want and indicate in the course system where that page is and on the instructor backend, I can then access that page and feeds as needed. (As I think too much about this, I’m starting to mentally blend in what I’ve already heard you talk about and present ;-)

-Chris

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