Should Learning Management Systems be considered harmful? The vanishing dream of an open cultural exchange

Ronchetti, Marco (2004) Should Learning Management Systems be considered harmful? The vanishing dream of an open cultural exchange. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    Support to e-learning activities has undergone a transition from simple web-based solutions to complete and integrated Learning Management Systems. Such transformation had an important, maybe unwanted and probably almost unnoticed side-effect: the closure to the outside world. We discuss why that happens and whether it is a desirable or necessary feature. We outline the consequences of such fact on e-learning in general, and on the dream of an open society in particular. Finally, we propose some solutions that allow keeping the necessary protection features while allowing for a more open sharing of learning resources.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA076 Computer software
    Report Number: DIT-04-008
    Repository staff approval on: 06 Feb 2004

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