Stuart, does it provide faciities for rsearch studies? ie can I easily use the reports to conduct a research in oreder to help the learners? and if yes, what is the research area it is based on? perhaps you cant aswer these questions... many thanX, niki --- Stuart Lee <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > *************************************************************************** > Dr Stuart D Lee | Head of the > Learning Technologies > Oxford University Computing | Group > (http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/) > Services | > 13 Banbury Road | Member of the > English Faculty > Oxford OX2 6NN > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-mail: [log in to unmask]; Tel: +44 1865 > 283403; Fax: +44 1865 > 273275; URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/ > > Bodington VLE/LMS (Free): > http://www.bodington.org.uk/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ***************** List information: > ***************** > Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. > Access the list via the web on > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html > To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with > the message: leave vle > ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle