Sat.Jan 14, 2012 - Fri.Jan 20, 2012

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People versus Systems: Let’s acknowledge the difference

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A number of years ago I was impressed by the writing of Stephen Kemmis , in particular his 2004 article Five traditions in the study of practice. Kemmis was synthesising work by Jürgen Habermas (1987) Lifeworld and System. What I got from the article are the following concepts. And they make sense to me from a pragmatic and real perspective of technology user adoption, and what happens when implementing technology, such as e-learning and learning management systems (LMS), into organisations.

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LMS implementation – a question of sovereignty

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When an organisation chooses to implement a Learning Management System (LMS), there are lots of new tasks and processes that need to be introduced to the training role. These include more specialised reporting, systems testing before computer hardware/software (SOE) updates, maintenance of e-learning version control, keeper of quality control, helpdesk support, classroom curriculum updates and so on.