Mark Smithers

Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education

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BlackBoard, Sakai and Moodle – Point/Counterpoint at Educause 2009

This very interesting discussion was held recently at the Educause 2009 Conference in Denver.

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Insidious Pedagogy – some thoughts on Lisa Lane’s article

I have just read Lisa Lane’s article in First Monday entitled “Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching”. I really liked her paper, not least because it raised some issues that I hadn’t considered before regarding default settings in an LMS and the idea of opt in and opt out learning management systems. It [...]

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Public LMS Evaluations

Many universities are currently, or have recently, reviewed their enterprise LMS including my own employer. Unfortunately we haven’t made our review process public but many universities have been generous enough to provide information about their reviews. The following list are some of the publicly available LMS reviews that I have found. These were really useful [...]

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Learning Management Systems at Australian Universities

During April, 2009 I carried out an informal bit of research to see what Australian universities were using as their principal, enterprise wide Learning Management System (LMS). This was simply based on visiting each university web site and attempting to find out which LMS was being used. This was easier in some cases than others. [...]

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