Hacker's Week- Examining LMS Systems

Innovation requires creativity. An employees work can be grinding and may hinder that creativity. Many companies have recognized this and have allowed their employees to allot up to 20% of their time toward any projects that they wish. The guiding rule is that it relates to their work. This has allowed many innovative projects to be created. Is one possible way to foster creativity in our students? Perhaps if a student were given complete reign over their studies they would generate ingenious results.

I was given the opportunity to study anything that may relate to my work as a George Mason Graduate Student in the Blended and Online Learning in Schools program (BOLS). I chose to examine different learning management systems to determine what would suit my purposes best as a K-12 educator and to help fellow teachers in the program determine what would be best for their BOLS projects. I created a checklist examining many of the features many LMS systems have. That document is below along with a video of me showing the features of some of those systems.