RodeWorks

Here is a great post from over a year ago on the subject of Online learning systems, a more ‘unmanaged’ alternative to the WebCTs and Blackboards of the world (now pretty much the same thing.)  Perhaps unmanaged isn’t quite the right word — I think self-managing, or self-organizing might be better.  At least it sounds more positive.

This is exactly the type of system I think would be of value for our school.  I’m glad I came across this post, but at the same time I can’t believe its been out there so long.  There are references to using Drupal as the technology for these types of systems, in both the comments and in the post from Harold Jarche.  Howard states:

The general theme is that less management is better, and that individual learners could write all of their posts, assignments and papers from their own site, and these could be directed to each class as web feeds. The classes would aggregate the feeds from all the students and instructors. The beauty of this kind of system is that each student keeps all of his/her content, and it does not get locked away in an inaccessible archive of a centrally controlled LMS.

Good stuff!

Un-Managing Learning Management Systems - A possible future for online learning at incorporated subversion

Harold Jarche - From e-Learning to s-Learning