Thursday, September 17, 2009

Is this possible?

Using a free core Learning Management System (LMS) which has interoperability with an existing Student Management System (SMS). Where all students use a Single Sign On (SSO) to access their courses and resources. A place where the students and parents can login to see assessment results, and communicate with peers and teachers. Where students are provided a digital core to bring to and remove from, any number of their creative Web 2.0 designs showing evidence of their work. Emphasis, on removing their work from the core when moving room, year, school or country (called ePortfolio). Where students' prior work is recognised and built upon and learning is life wide. Where students can even bring along a whole package of applications such as Google Apps or Mahara using their single sign on (SSO). Where a school can allow a student to bring any device such as laptop, ipod, to school and has connectivity to participate and showcase their work. A school where students cannot wait to get to, and find it hard to leave from. A place where teachers are at the mercy of students, who love inquiry learning and playing online games, and hence becoming facilitators of the learning process and moreover learners themselves. A place where principals of schools encourage all teachers to have an online ePortfolio as evidence of their admin and other work, and moreover they themselves take the lead in having one themselves, which includes a comments section. And last, but not least, where Open Source software easily integrates and is encouraged.

(as presented to the mle-reference-group.googlegroups.com)

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