Common Need, Inc.

The 6th annual JISC CETIS conference "A Brave New World?" aims to provide a space to reflect on the successes and challenges of the previous year, to look into the future, to speculate, and to consider the interventions needed to realize the information systems for teaching and learning into the future.

Please join us at 9am on November 11th at CETIS-2009 Conference: A Brave New World? in Birmingham, England.

Composing your Learning Environment; new models
Post VLE, the MLE concept first tackled the need to integrate functionality and data in teaching and learning IT systems. The PLE discussion radically re-conceptualized the notion of a learning environment for the social web apps age. But the VLE is still there, proving that it has a clear role in most educational institutions.

The resulting tension between the role of the VLE as a common tool for the institutional community on the one hand, and the desire to make it permeable to the wider web on the other has created a number of new solutions. These solutions are built on different architectures that each have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Stuart Sim, CommonNeed CTO, will be talking about our plugjam^® platform and the powerful capabilities it allows you in intelligently discovering data, securely mashing up web2.0 apps, and conducting business intelligence and data analysis.

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