USING LAMS AT PERTH COLLEGE

Dawne HodkinsonCommunity Learning Manager

WHAT IS LAMS?

• Learning Activity Management System– Developed in Australia at Macquarie

University by Prof James Dalziel• Limitations of monolothic VLEs

– Transmission model

– Content v Process view of education

– Vendors confident sector not looking for changes

– Showcased in February 2003• Trialled (with DfES support) in May 2003

– JISC project began September 2004– LAMS became OpenSource Feb 2005

Why use LAMS?

• Focus on pedagogy, not technology• Easy to develop sequences

– Modification for re-use– Develop “bank” of sequences– Encourage sharing of expertise as well as content

• Runs as a web application• Flexibility for the teacher

– short chunks through to longer sequences• Variety of tools

– Collaboration– Monitoring– Testing– Survey

LAMS AT PERTH COLLEGE

• Who– 2nd year HND students

• Not familiar with any other e-learning tools– Very experienced lecturer

• ILT Co-ordinator for Faculty• How

– Direction to resources (internal and external)– Discussion fora– Monitoring– Testing

• Evaluation– Feed into the JISC project evaluation– Consider the possibility of integration with new UHI VLE

(based on Bodington)• Possibilities

– Initial teacher training

To a live sequence …

….. hopefully

LAMS for the future …..

• Improved look and feel– Rich text editor– Off-line text editing

• VLE integration– Bodington, Moodle, WebCT, Blackboard

• Branching/Grouping• Wizard

– LAMS Express• Instant Messaging• Tools interface

– To allow users to develop their own tools• Import/Export for IMS LD• LAMS Community/Sharing Website

For more information …

• JISC website– http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_docum

ents/LAMS.JISCeval.AstonUniConference.Jan05.ppt

– http://www.uklams.net/documents/9-11-04-LAMS.SST.Nov04.ppt

– http://www.uklams.net/– dawne.hodkinson@perth.uhi.ac.uk