Last week Converge Magazine published an article that highlights three education technology trends (as identified in a June 2010 report by the Software & Information Industry Association) to watch: learning management systems, online learning, and mobile computing. To summarize the summary, increased government standards and lower prices for learning management systems will move school districts and colleges toward blended learning programs.
We keep in close communication with our users, so these trends were no surprise to the Haiku team. In fact, if you’re familiar with our approach to updating our learning management system then you know that we constantly collaborate with educators to learn how students learn and teachers teach. That knowledge enables us to evolve Haiku LMS to meet the actual needs of actual people rather than impose our ideas for what we deem useful features.
We’re pleased that our learning management system already offers much of what educators do and will need going forward:
- Online gradebook and class rosters
- Chat*
- Online interaction with teachers*
- Assignments and student calendars
- Announcements
- Learning and course management
* Chat and online interaction get an asterisk because they’re features that are already in the works for Haiku LMS. In the meantime, third-party services like VoiceThread meet the need for these functionalities and are integrated into Haiku LMS via our Embed the Web™ feature.
More information about how to obtain the original, full report is available in the SIIA press release (pdf).
What other trends do you see?
This is a huge step forward for online and blended learning because it further underscores the increasing momentum and success of digital learning. Such a shift to digital content ensures that schools will be able to keep content current and ultimately to tie that content directly into their online classrooms to provide students with even more resources.
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