James Dalziel - Introduction - Learning Design and Open Source Teaching 1.5 2007/07/10 10:17:05 GMT-5 2007/07/27 08:14:00.122 GMT-5 Ken Udas keu10@psu.edu Cecelia Merkel cbm12@psu.edu Australia James Dalziel LAMS Learning Activity Management Systems Macquarie University Open Educational Resources (OER) Open Source Software (OSS) OSS and OER in Education Series Introduction to James Dalziel's contribution to the "OSS and OER in Education Series." In this post, he will be using experiences with LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) to tie together some thoughts about pedagogy, technology and open source software. LAMS is an open source Learning Design system. It provides tools to author, run, and manage Learning Designs (also known as digital lesson plans). The LAMS Community supports sharing of Learning Designs as open educational resources.

James Danziel - Introduction

James Dalziel is Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Prior to his current roles, James helped lead the COLIS (Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services) project, was a Director of WebMCQ Pty Ltd, an e-learning and assessment company, and was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney.James leads a number of projects including: LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) - a tool for designing, managing and delivering online collaborative learning activities MAMS (Meta Access Management System) - a national identity and access infrastructure project for the Australian higher education sector RAMP (Research Activityflow and Middleware Priorities) - a project investigating open standards authorization and e-Research workflows ASK-OSS (the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software) - a national advisory service on open source issues for the Australia higher education and research sector