Create, Innovate & Evaluate in Higher Education

Por Fernando Santamaría

Por unos tuits de Manuel Gil (iniciador?), Jordi Adell, Victor Abella, etc me pongo a sintetizar toda estos acrónimos y siglas de plataformas para el aprendizaje, que a veces se confunden entre el español e inglés. Hay libros en los que lo diferencian. He elegido el de “Elearning: Key Concepts” y la entrada de la Wikipedia inglesa para escribir sobre ello.

The LMS Instructure Enters the MOOC Fray

by Audrey Watters on 31 Oct, 2012

Not content with being the young upstart in the LMS industry taking on the aging giants of Blackboard and Desire2Learn, Instructure has now decided to enter another market and take on some of the upstarts there, namely Coursera and edX. That is, tonight it launches the Canvas Network, which in the words of CEO Josh Coates, is “our answer to the whole MOOC hype.”

It’s an answer that Instructure’s current clients have helped devise, too, Coates says, noting that many of the schools that run its LMS Canvas are pondering that hype and weighing whether they should join the Coursera or edX platform (or fear being left out of the MOOC race entirely). In many cases, these schools already offer online classes to their own students, but simply don’t have the reach — the marketing reach or the instructional reach — that the xMOOCs promise.