Gary, our colleague here, wrote a blog post on the alphabet soup of Content Management Systems that are out there. Very apropos, as we look at various LMS currently.
Gary, our colleague here, wrote a blog post on the alphabet soup of Content Management Systems that are out there. Very apropos, as we look at various LMS currently.
Useful outline of the big integration challenge for content, but also services. Learning has the same challenge; providing all the powerful tools to users, but integrating them into a “package” that fits multiple functions.
Online learning must provide a spectrum of media in real time and include a “smart curator” functionality that adapts in real time to specific learner needs. Learning facilitators might in some ways have “management” functions or what Gary refers to as “governance”. But that’s not all that needs to be “at the fingertips” of the user, and DLE provider.
Integration of multiple tools is a challenge across the internet now that we are connected in one to one, one to many, and many to many ways, simultaneously. Hard for linear rationality concepts to even provide a useful framework for structuring these interactions, much less implement them.
It’s something we have been acquainted with for a while anyway, as we’ve struggled with lack of standards traded off for new functionality, and ubiquitous connection for determined location. Kind of similar sounding to the Quantum mechanics conundrum, or knowing energy, but not location and vice versa. Or is it knowing mass, but not location… we could always look it up at google to find out.
But you know the problem; we are all ubiquitously present online, but often nowhere to be found.
IOW we’ve already got some experience with these problems,. OTOH, one look at the Google menu of functions, and their very iffy integration, shows that solutions are hard won.
Or one could point out that Apple, who designed and or mostly controlled most all the standards of both MacOS, and iOS, still has weak support for integration of those two platforms. Google and Apple being two of the most capitalized and capable “cloud” technology providers we have as yet, in 2015 would seem to have all the necessary resources. So what’s the ongoing problem. Gary talks about this above.
There’s apparently room for Tempo, Globecomm, and various others, to work on the integration problem. Likely it will be some time, possibly a long time, before this paradox of connection is optimally addressed. And of course, some paradoxes resist solution, and remain paradoxes….