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Some interesting thoughts to come out of IMS Learning Impact. Here are a few notes - they probably need to be expanded on but it's interesting to get these down as they occur: 'education is the only industry still debating the use of technology...' - comment about education in the USA but probably applies to many other countries. 'education...holds on to an agricultural timeframe (and many other outdated or irrelevant concepts)....in a digital age'. There also seems to be a lot of emphasis on making improvements in disaster planning/first responders - a bit of a sad reflection on the state of things at the moment. A great deal of the conference is dedicated to open source, open content and open services. Suggestion that the open content movement will follow roughly the same path as open source. Currently it is lagging a few years behind open source. For providers, particularly smaller ones, you can't focus on who you are and what you have done in the past, but must focus instead on the future. Focus on your brand and IP is not going to help you. Open source vendors must focus on decreasing the distance between the state of their apps and 'production' as a very high priority. 'Instructional design' is in a mess. Graduates in this area not equipped to develop content to meet the needs of todays/tomorrows learners - generally no experience in games technologies and it has been argued that this is a very important aspect of learning into the future. More notes and maybe a better put together post to come.

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