I liked your article and agree we have to be careful not to just get distracted by sometimes shallow, disjointed multimedia. Teaching in post-secondary, I’m amazed at how few students in their senior years are […]

Good point. That should have had more prominence. I think LMS make the most sense at the largest geographical scale possible to minimize the silo problems. Some jurisdictions are finding the LMS does good job of managing the administrative side of things but doesn’t do as good a job as we previously thought with enhancing [...]

I agree we need to take into consideration the prevailing platforms. When choosing between for example Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Office 365 or Live@edu, maybe it would tip to Microsoft. I know open source has some baggage as being difficult to use but I think recently some of the tools like WordPress are [...]

Good idea Maryjanne! Most content management systems have plugins that do that sort of collaborative filtering / related posts where posts would have the information about the learning resource.

Thanks for sharing the paper from Wisconson, very interesting and feels like similar ideas are taking shape around the world. I think you are right that a big driver is the students trying different learning approaches. I like the deep learning and critical thinking focus you mention too so it’s not just focused on the [...]