{"id":268,"date":"2003-09-04T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T17:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/04\/blogs-as-course-management-systems-is-their-biggest-advantage-also-their-achilles-heel\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T17:28:13","slug":"blogs-as-course-management-systems-is-their-biggest-advantage-also-their-achilles-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/09\/04\/blogs-as-course-management-systems-is-their-biggest-advantage-also-their-achilles-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs as Course Management Systems: Is their biggest advantage also their achille&#8217;s heel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/john_kruper\/iblog\/B905739295\/C1776019690\/E1401376105\/index.html\">http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/john_kruper\/iblog\/<br \/>\nB905739295\/C1776019690\/E1401376105\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Kruper of the <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/john_kruper\/iblog\/B905739295\/\">&#8216;Electric Lyceum<\/a>&#8216; has posted&nbsp;this longish piece that neatly summarizes many of the recent posts&nbsp;concerning alternatives and dissatisfactions with conventional commercial course management systems. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But in a refreshing (to me at least) turn, he notes that while blogs are attractive as teaching and learning tools because they break out of the mould of instructor as expert\/student as empty vessel, and start to enable real student creation and participation, they lack many of the seemingly straightforward &#8216;class management&#8217;&nbsp;tools that are somewhat fundamental to the commercial CMS offerings. Many of these functions may seem pedagogically unexciting, but as Kruper points out, try running a number of online sections in a number of courses simultaneously&nbsp;without them. <\/p>\n<p>I am definitely not &#8216;taking sides&#8217; in this debate. I&#8217;m just glad to see someone make the point that many of the &#8216;administrative&#8217; functions provided in commercial CMS&nbsp;have some importance. Should they override pedagogical concerns? No, of course they shouldn&#8217;t. But they should have a place in considering what such systems need to do. I think you can see this thinking behind both OKI and the API strategies of the biggest CMS players. They all seem to be trying to get to a point where the administrative functionality is just there, and then upon which more pedagogically interesting applications can be built, and in both cases potentially built locally. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/john_kruper\/iblog\/ B905739295\/C1776019690\/E1401376105\/index.html John Kruper of the &#8216;Electric Lyceum&#8216; has posted&nbsp;this longish piece that neatly summarizes many of the recent posts&nbsp;concerning alternatives and dissatisfactions with conventional commercial course management systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,63,390],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-management-systems","tag-blogs","tag-cms","tag-social_learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}