Gamification/Game Principles In Instruction

EDUCAUSE LEARNING INITIATIVE | APRIL 2014

The resources below explore the LMS/Learning Ecosystem, a model that conceptualizes the online learning environment as a continuum, with the LMS at one end and a student’s or faculty member’s own collection of applications, tools, and websites at the other. This approach provides for a more robust and varied teaching and learning environment, one that is frequently managed actively by students or by faculty.

Harvard University’s Learning Management Ecosystem Initiative

2014

This site includes various resources that an institution can use to explore and determine what might be needed to select and implement a learning management ecosystem to include faculty interview and focus group questions and system interview questions.

7 Things You Should Know About LTI

2013

This ELI brief covers Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), an open specification from the IMS Global Learning Consortium designed to enable plug-and-play integration of educational applications with the institutional enterprise. Also useful is the IMS Global policy brief on open-standards requirements for digital content and application integration with enterprise learning platforms: http://www.imsglobal.org/articles/APB1-022013.pdf.

Pedagogy-Driven Design of Digital Learning Ecosystems

2014

This study makes the case for digital learning ecosystems designed to promote and enforce desirable pedagogical beliefs, strategies, and learning-activity patterns. It also describes a model for pedagogy-driven design of online learning environments and illustrates it with a case study on the development and implementation process of a digital learning ecosystem.

A Personal Cyberinfrastructure

2009

This article makes the case for students developing their own personal cyberinfrastructures designed to help them acquire crucial technical skills and engage them in work that provides richly teachable moments ranging from multimodal writing to information science, knowledge management, bibliographic instruction, and social networking.

Envisioning the Post-LMS Era: The Open Learning Network

2010

This article reviews both the new roles and new functions desirable for a new LMS model and also provides some useful comparisons between the LMS and the personal learning environment concepts.

A New Architecture for Learning

2013

This article suggests ways higher education can support students and faculty as connected learners and instructors and rethink the role of academic technology architecture as the strategic enabler of connected learning.

Does Your LMS Do This?

2014

This post provides a useful historical review of learning management systems and their role in supporting learning and also suggests the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead as the LMS continues to evolve.

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