Next Generation Sakai: A Community Dialog on a Vision

for the Future

Sessions Overview

The Future of the LMS: Creativity,

Personalization and Unbundling – Josh Baron

The Future of the LMS: Technical Innovations –

Dr. Chuck

Community Dialog: Feedback, New Ideas and a

Road Forward

The Monolithic LMS Model

Should the LMS market be focused on this model for the next 20 years as well?

The Monolithic LMS Has Been Successful

Provided us with enterprise systems that can run at scale

• Supported growth of distance education

• Helped drive experiments such as OCW and MOOCs

• Have become mission critical systems in higher ed

Sakai has proven the success of this model and driven innovation

• Open source model, open standards

Monolithic ≠ Creativity

Drives us towards generalization and standardization

• A “one size fits all” is easier to build, deploy and support

• Good for efficiency, not so good for creativity

Innovative teaching and learning requires creativity

• Think about your most innovative learning experience…

Standardized teaching and learning is just not fun!

Let’s see a quick example…

How could we allow for greater creativity when

using the LMS?Give users the FREEDOM to CREATE their own LMS

Facilitate “Tinkerability*” – Allow ANY users to build, deploy, modify and share their own learning apps

• Learning app = learning object (content) + functionality

Think of the Google Maps API model

• Today there are over 1,000,000 apps that use it

Users are moving in this direction, we need to catch up

* http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/designing-for-tinkerability.pdf

Learning App Builder

Authors app that automatically posts

information to Google Map

Lessons+

Fashion Trend Map App

Learner uses App embedded in

Lessons+ to docu-ment global trends

Fashion Street Trends

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Fashion Trend Map App

The Next Generation LMS will be…

…highly personalized through learning analytics

• Academic early alert systems and Adaptive learning systems

• Academic Networking

…a delightful user experience (UX)

• Allow users to customize the user experience

…able to document all forms of learning

• Store and archive artifacts and credentials outside LMS

Final Thought…Why Now?

Would have this approach been possible or even worked in 2004?

How might a Next Generation LMS be

Organized?

Unbundling the Learning Management

SystemLearning Services – Underlying technical

specifications and technologies which form the

“glue” that connects tools and apps into a

cohesive learning environment.

Learning Devices – Support core teaching and

learning capabilities (Gradebook, Test Engine,

Learning App Builder)

Learning Apps – Applications which users can

build, install, modify and share on their own.

Layers of a Next Generation Learning Environment

Personal Learning Application – Allows user to document, control and share their own learning and teaching experiences.

Institutional Learning Environment – Enterprise-level platform deployed by an institution to support their teaching and learning mission.

Global Learning Cloud – Shared-services environment hosted outside of the institution to support inter-institutional collaboration and sharing.