For all people here that use #Squeezebox and Lyrion Music Server. There is a community firmware update for Squeezebox Radio, Touch and Controller. I wrote a blogpost why and how to update to the latest version: 8.5.0.
I’m truly excited that we have two more calls with our potential new LMS vendors to discuss terms of contract. Fingers crossed that we move away from our current Learning Management System in 2025. With advancement in technology and AI, we need a better platform for our learners. Next steps will be to get buy-in from leaders once we make a recommendation and discuss the IT aspects of the implementation process. #LearningAndDevelopment#LMS#Administrator#Technology#Tech 💻🤓
No decorrer do mês de março, um grupo de pesquisadores, professores e alunos da UNIVASF (Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco) se reuniu com o propósito de retomar a Comunidade do Software Público Amadeus LMS e também criar meios para o aprimoramento da ferramenta. O grupo agora convida outros(as) interessados(as) na gestão da apreendizagem para participarem da Comunidade Amadeus Lms no TELEGRAM.
"We were supposed to research #enshittification, not embrace it as a business model!" implored the DVC Research.
The Vice-Chancellor sighed audibly and exhaled.
"We're out of options."
She raised her hands, palms up, reminiscent of prayer.
"The research grants don't cover the research we do, much less the research we want to do.
International students have declined 20% year on year since India, China and Indonesia have on-shore partnerships with Deakin and Monash that still get the grads a permanent residency.
We have PhDs teaching most of the undergrad courses. The endowment took a major hit when the stock market crashed in '25.
Federation's gone bust, Adelaide's half the size it was before the merger, and you've seen CQ merge with SCU and James Cook and Charles Darwin just to be viable."
She took a sharp inhalation of burnt autumn air.
"It's tens of millions a year in recurring revenue. That's a School's worth of people."
I’ve been attending webinars on top of my day-to-day the last two days with a prospective Learning Management System (LMS) and I’ve learned so much information in this time. I really hope we can get the buy-in and IT support for implementation next year with one of our top two recommendations. Technology has vastly improved and we need to provide access to a better platform and external training 🤓#LearningAndDevelopment#BuyIn#Training#LMS#Learning
With squeezebox.com permanently closed it's actually a great time to buy a #Squeezebox device and run it on your own server. I noticed that a lot of people are currently selling their devices against great prices.
Is it your campus' #LMS, #CMS, #Portal, #Email, etc. that provide value, or your academic programs, faculty, research, etc.?
"Actors in the private sector [#HigherEducation] need to distinguish between the algorithmic technologies and data that are key to their intellectual-property and business model and the secondary ones that eventually support the former."
I just wrote up instructions for creating an assignment or lab in my university's LMS, so that my TAs can do that for me. Mind you, we don't actually use the #LMS to hand out, collect, or grade this assignment or lab, this just puts it on the calendar and adds it to the gradebook. It is an EIGHTEEN STEP PROCESS, per assignment, assuming that I didn't forget anything, and requires changes in two different parts of the interface that each take several seconds to load.
[T]he definition currently requires regular and substantive interaction between #students and instructors; substantive interactions with machines or other forms of technology that do not involve in [an] instructor would, therefore, not qualify.
Very excited to share a substantially updated version of our preprint “Language models show human-like content effects on reasoning tasks!” TL;DR: LMs and humans show strikingly similar patterns in how the content of a logic problem affects their answers. Thread: 1/10 #LanguageModels#lms#AI#cogsci#machinelearning#nlp#nlproc#cognitivescience
Suchen Sie Ideen für das selbstorganisierte Lernen in #OpenOlat? Dann sind Sie richtig im OOteach am 31.10.2023. Wir stellen Ihnen die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten von OpenOlat vor.
Working on some onboarding material for Front End Developers at Valtech. Have you come across any truly exceptional new employee onboarding experiences? What did they do that made it great?
My #University just bought into Brightspace from D2L, which is a giant crappy #LMS. It's so bad. We had Blackboard before, and I never thought I would miss that garbage.
Anyway, so BS has import and export from CSV, except IT'S NOT CSV. Inexplicably, every line except the first starts and ends with a # character. And this is IN THE DOCUMENTATION. It's so "the system knows when the next set of data begins". Which, in CSV, is what the newline is for. If this isn't #exploitable, I'm SHOCKED.
Critical unauthenticated command injection in Chamilo LMS exploited in the wild
"Imunify360 researchers have recently found a wave of attacks exploiting a known vulnerability in Chamilo LMS (CVE-2023-34960) to escalate and execute arbitrary commands. Chamilo is an e-learning platform, also called Learning Management Systems (LMS), widely used by Universities and NGOs with a total of ~85k installations."
Earlier, I shared concerns from a popular #EdTech forum:
Licensing renewal for hosted Instructure Canvas is increasing by a staggering 24% over the next 3 years.
It's interesting that #HigherEducation will apparently stick with a proprietary system, even as prices soar. However, it will migrate off an #OpenSource system as soon as any costs are incurred.