{"id":228,"date":"2009-12-04T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T01:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2009-12-04T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T01:03:39","slug":"thinking-about-platforms-for-open-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/228","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about platforms for open learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a different kind of post for me&#8230; I&#8217;m really thinking out loud and looking for folks more knowledgeable than me to make suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on an OER project plan to develop open &#8220;textbooks&#8221; (collections of resources with a scope and sequence, not necessarily in a textbook format) for K-12 that can be remixed at a classroom or even student level to differentiate instruction. The focus is on flexibility, ease of use, and appropriateness for average K-12 teacher.<\/p>\n<p>I want to put resources toward high quality content, not a platform. There are so many open platforms out there that there must be one (or more) that are appropriate for this. I suspect that there might be a need for two platforms: a CMS for the developers and an LMS for end users. Some key criteria would include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for various media types (text, audio, video)<\/li>\n<li>Support for interactive media (quizzes, writing response, assignment submission, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Ability to export in multiple formats (print, electronic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are systems I&#8217;ve looked at and thought about (some more than others): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moodle.org\">Moodle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MediaWiki.org\">MediaWiki<\/a>, <a href=\"www.cnx.org\">Connexions<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"www.ck12.org\">FlexBooks<\/a>, and <a href=\"www.sakaiproject.org\">Sakai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As an end user tool, I like Moodle for a lot of reasons, including that it is very interactive and geared for remix. It also doesn&#8217;t hurt that a lot of schools already use and like it.<\/p>\n<p>While Moodle seems like a good LMS for my purposes, it seems like we&#8217;d need a front-end development CMS to host content in. The idea would be that a teacher would choose a course (or smaller content modules) from the CMS and then export them to Moodle where the materials could be customized for individual classes or even groups of students.<\/p>\n<p>Questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does this approach make sense?<\/li>\n<li>Do you know of anyone using a CMS to export content into Moodle?<\/li>\n<li>What other tools or approaches should I be thinking about?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks in advance for any thoughts you care to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a different kind of post for me&#8230; I&#8217;m really thinking out loud and looking for folks more knowledgeable than me to make suggestions. 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