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The Google news this week is all about Google+, the company's next effort to break into social networks. I say this is great, as I'm another one of those outmigrants, or maybe conscientious objectors, to the Facebook nation.
The real reason I'm excited about Google+ is not social networking (which I think is sort of tiresome), but because Google+ is an important building block for a killer Google LMS (learning management system). Learning is social. Incumbent LMS tools not so much.
Integrate the goodness of Google Docs with Google+, throw in media management from YouTube, whip up a little SIS (student information system) integration, and finish off with a new assessment engine and gradebook (maybe just buy Instructure for a shortcut) - voila - a recipe for a Google LMS. Build the thing around Android and you are talking emerging economy learners (the one's that will really matter anyway in the next 20 years).
The real reason I'm excited about Google+ is not social networking (which I think is sort of tiresome), but because Google+ is an important building block for a killer Google LMS (learning management system). Learning is social. Incumbent LMS tools not so much.
Integrate the goodness of Google Docs with Google+, throw in media management from YouTube, whip up a little SIS (student information system) integration, and finish off with a new assessment engine and gradebook (maybe just buy Instructure for a shortcut) - voila - a recipe for a Google LMS. Build the thing around Android and you are talking emerging economy learners (the one's that will really matter anyway in the next 20 years).
