NGDLE - Next Generation Digital Learning Environment#
a digital learning architecture encompassing a confederation of learning applications, tools, and resources woven together by means of open standards.
In part, because of the inherent variety
What is clear is that postsecondary learning is far too diverse to be enabled adequately by a single application or platform. Therefore, it seems legitimate to conclude that any LMS will always need to be supplemented by additional components and resources, resulting in a digital learning environment instead of an LMS platform.
Raising the question of who decides what supplements are allowed?
Representations#
For more#
What's a NGDLE? provides thoughts from David Hopkins. Includes pointers to thoughts from others and is inspired by So what will a NGDLE look like from Bryan Mathers which includes the following image. Which while including the Lego metaphor doesn't resonate with me because the lego base is very uniform - hiding the true complexity and ugliness of the base.
So what will a NGDLE look like? by @bryanMMathers is licenced under CC-BY-ND
Ammie Moot's Some more thoughts on the NDGDLE for what it's worth is very good, mentioning (amongst other things) - absence of student voices in the formulation of the NGDLE concept - a tendency for the NGDLE to fetishise the technology and lacking broader thinking about "the digital" - including the importance and place of the open web - the reality of maintenance because "each LEGO brick in this NGDLE architecture is a moving part...and they're all moving at different speeds, shaped by different agendas, communities and commercial realities" - absence of engagement with "issues of consent and control around data" - raises the idea of the NGDLE being a suite of small, simple, lightly managed tools