{"id":899,"date":"2011-05-16T13:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T21:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=899"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:07:03","slug":"wheres-the-door-lms-or-websocial-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/wheres-the-door-lms-or-websocial-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the door? LMS or web\/social media?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe it’s not really about a choice between an LMS and web\/social media.<\/p>\n

First, I found it interesting that Kelly Trainor (Yavapai College, Arizona) said in his faculty showcase<\/a> that he uses a great WordPress blog for his class, but still uses Blackboard for the gradebook.<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4RF_duVyt0c&w=433&h=270]<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, I discovered this cool resource of online teaching videos<\/a> from the University of New South Wales, and watched this one:<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2PjtX8EEx1Q&w=444&h=277]<\/span><\/p>\n

And what occurred to me was that the issue is this:<\/p>\n

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And the question is: Where’s the door?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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cc WordRidden at Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want to take advantage of the affordances of both<\/em> venues, where do you want students to enter your class? From the web or a social media site (Flickr, YouTube, Ning, Facebook, a WordPress blog) or through a Learning Management System (Blackboard, Ning)?<\/p>\n

The front door is important. Ask any real estate agent.<\/p>\n

With the door in the LMS<\/strong>, you can link out to open web sites or social media (or use course menu buttons to make things appear to be inside the LMS).<\/p>\n

With the door on the web or at a social media site<\/strong>, you can provide a link to the LMS for whatever needs to be done there.<\/p>\n

The choice here sets up different kind of hierarchies, implies differences in pedagogy, and creates different kinds of opportunities for learning.<\/p>\n

Starting<\/strong> in an LMS <\/strong>implies:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • closer connection with the college and its structures<\/li>\n
  • greater concern for issues like security, privacy, homogeneity of systems<\/li>\n
  • a similarity in importance put on tasks (if using a course menu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Depending on how it’s used, it could also imply:<\/p>\n

      \n
    • emphasis on presentation and content over interactivity and community<\/li>\n
    • a teacher-centric model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Starting on the open web or in a social media site<\/strong> implies:<\/p>\n

        \n
      • a greater connection with the outside world<\/li>\n
      • greater emphasis on communication and creation<\/li>\n
      • a supposition of diversity in tasks and approaches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Depending on how it’s used, it could also imply:<\/p>\n

          \n
        • an emphasis on community over content<\/li>\n
        • a more constructivist (or even connectivist) pedagogy<\/li>\n
        • a more learner-centric model<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          I think it’s important to know what we’re saying to our students, not only with the “inside” of the course design, but with how you enter the space in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Maybe it’s not really about a choice between an LMS and web\/social media. First, I found it interesting that Kelly Trainor (Yavapai College, Arizona) said in his faculty showcase that he uses a great WordPress blog for his class, but still uses Blackboard for the gradebook. [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4RF_duVyt0c&w=433&h=270] Then, I discovered this cool resource of online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,10,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-online-teaching","category-pedagogy","category-web-20"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}