One of our summertime CTL colleagues, Yolanda Williams, shared with us today this List of
Top 100 Tools for Learning from the UK Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. It's a pretty good checklist of current instructional technologies. (Yolanda's note, though, pointed up an
item in the Chronicle that took issue with the relative absence of library databases.)
In checking out the list, a couple things jumped out for me:
- Our own (Lake Superior College's) Barry Dahl is one of the contributors to the Top 10/Top 100 list.
- There's only one course management system on the list, and that's the open source Moodle. When I attended the TAOSE group's discussion on open-source IMS a couple weeks ago, a majority of the colleges and universities represented (outside of our system) were either adopting or experimenting with Moodle. Take a look at it; it's grown into a really flexible IMS.
As an adherent of social- or sociocognitive learning theory
and fan of non-commercial, user-modifiable open source software, I'm fascinated by moodle, which was developed to serve both ends. It was initially developed by Martin Dougiamas, who articulates on the Moodle home page
his own and Moodle's (imagine!)
pedagogical philosophy.
