LAMS Foundation Launches Community Web Site

The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) Foundation has announced the launch of a new Web site that will allow what it calls “open source teaching,” in which educators can share and modify digital lesson plans. The LAMS Community Web site is based on the .LRN open source platform, developed at MIT. Using the LAMS Community Web site, teachers can search through various subset communities, looking for sequences of learning activities particular to their field. Available communities will initially include developers, technical support, and education, which will offer subcommunities for K-12, higher education and training, and research and development. New communities can be added later, such as a community focused on math teachers in the Boston area.

The Web site will allow teachers to share their own learning sequences, access others’ sequences, rate them, and discuss them. All of the content will be used under Creative Commons licenses.

LAMS Foundation, 30 September 2005