Forum Getting Started: Re: What do people use for authoring sequences?

Now I can see how it helps if you think of designing at two levels: (1) high level course structures, vs (2) individual activity sequences for particular topics. Using VUE for (1) and LAMS for (2) then makes some sense to me.

In particular, high level course structures often touch on many issues which may have many connections, not a simple linear format. So a "mind mapping" approach could be particularly useful here.

The downside is that the VUE design is a design only, it can't be "run" in the same way as LAMS. In the medium term future, I'd like to see LAMS have another authoring area for higher level course design where you can aggregate sequences into a larger structure (and not just in a "linear" way). So this new feature would work a bit like VUE but for the particular task of higher level course design. NB: It would be web-based, visual drag and drop in style, but wouldn't try to provide all the other features of VUE.

There would be nothing stopping you still using VUE or similar tools once LAMS has this new authoring approach, but the advantage of adding this feature to LAMS would be having all your course structures and activities in one place, and all of it is re-usable and "runable" directly.

Posted by James Dalziel