2006 may see me endorsing an LMS!
Sean FitzGerald just posted the the
TALO eGroup his thoughts on the free, web based learning management system -
Nuvvo.
I just had a look around it, watched the
screencast, and enrolled in a free course on
Suburban Permaculture
being offered by the 'Neshura Institute'. The course starts in
February, and I'll be using it to hopefully learn a bit more about
permaculture, as well as sus out this new learning management system.
Off
the bat I feel a bit funny about it though. I feel like I'm returning
to school or something, disempowered, on someone else's agenda... but
realising that the education sector isn't likely to change much in the
next 100 years, I suppose I better pop my head into classroom from time
to time, and it may as well be one that comes close to my criteria.
- Free: Nuvvo will always be free, courses defualt to free, but the LMS has a ecommerce engine to handle paid for courses as well.
- Easy
: Certainly the easiest LMS I have ever laid eyes on
- Web based:
No need to install a thing! No need to talk to IT non support (unless
they censor it of course), Ajax powered interface niceness
But 2006 will see me adding another criteria -
Mobile.
Given
that blogger, wikispaces, flickr, bloglines and delicious all work like
a charm on the PDA I have on loan at the moment, will Nuvvo work on it?
So far not very well. I have emailed Nuvvo support to point this out,
as it should be an easy fix for them (its only the horizontal menu that
gets all chomped up). So if it works on a PDA, then it gets the tick
for mobile.
Once I do the permaculture course, I'll let you know what I think about it for teaching and learning online.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons (Attribution) license.
--
Posted by Leigh Blackall to
Teach and Learn Online at 1/10/2006 10:53:00 AM