Dear All,
As you may know Oxford has been co-ordinating the JISC LAMS practitioner
trial (myself and my colleague Dr Liz Masterman). The report has now been
finished and sent to JISC (yesterday!). Obviously I cannot reveal what our
conclusions are until JISC make it public, but I could answer some basic
questions on LAMS. You may also be interested in looking through the
archive at eped-lams (jiscmail list) where many issues were discussed.
1) Yes it is open source now.
2) It is IMS LD compliant (A at present but with plans to move to B/C)
3) I would not describe it as a VLE, to be honest, more a tool to easily
sequence activities (so in this sense it goes beyond a VLE). This is
obviously a big issue though.
At Oxford we have three other projects of interest. The first is with the
English Subject Centre and is looking at attitudes to reuse using LAMS
sequences. The second (just starting) is an evaluation of other tools
people use in designing for learning (mind mapping, office apps,
smartboards); and the third (completed) has been integrating LAMS and TOIA
with the Bodington VLE system.
Yours
Stuart
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