Re:MITx is a game changer for higher education
by a_m_kelly on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @09:02AM
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As someone who works in higher education, I'm most excited about this:
"...operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions."
In my opinion, today's course management systems go from pretty bad to worse. In using blackboard, moodle, and another platform called itslearning, these platforms suffer from major usability issues. I'm really looking forward to using a CMS I don't hate, students don't mind using, and which man be can modified at an institutional level. This could I think be the part of this announcement that has the biggest impact: helping to make online learning easier for everyone at a variety of institutions across the globe.
"...operate on an open-source, scalable software infrastructure in order to make it continuously improving and readily available to other educational institutions."
In my opinion, today's course management systems go from pretty bad to worse. In using blackboard, moodle, and another platform called itslearning, these platforms suffer from major usability issues. I'm really looking forward to using a CMS I don't hate, students don't mind using, and which man be can modified at an institutional level. This could I think be the part of this announcement that has the biggest impact: helping to make online learning easier for everyone at a variety of institutions across the globe.