Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: First steps with .LRN

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11: Re: First steps with .LRN (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on
LAMS is about learning activities.

.LRN and any LMS is about centralized control and organization.

That's all :)

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Posted by Richard Hamilton on
Ok, so can I consider them as complementary systems?

.LRN maps the organisational structure, stores all the students' and teachers' details, provides everyone with a personal space, stores curriculum info, homework info, provides forums, maps clubs and societies, stores all the teaching material (i.e documents, slideshows, video's, quizzes etc.), and contains IMS LD or SCORM scripts to sequence them into lessons.

LAMS provides teachers with a snazzy user interface to help them quickly organise the teaching resources together into sequences. So presumably LAMS must either produce IMS LD or SCORM output, or replace the IMS LD/ SCORM standards?

I'm guessing LAMS also has its own repository for teaching materials, and presumably can store info on teachers and students. So I guess there is overlap in user-login/ access control, and teaching material/ media storage.

In other words I could view .LRN as a learning community (hardly surprising since it is built on OpenACS!) and LAMS as a lesson planning tool?

Am I getting warmer?

😊

Richard

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Posted by Dave Bauer on
Bingo.
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Posted by Richard Hamilton on
Thanks Dave.

R.