Last Wednesday (13 April 2005) the not-for-profit LAMS Foundation (managed by Macquarie University) launched the open source version (GPL) of the IMS Learnng Design 'inspired' Learning Activity Management System. LAMS is a visual authoring environment for creating sequences of learning activities; so those with a personal preference for a heavy dose of teacher design in learning (or at least who are working in institutions where it's the norm) should find this tool - or should that be virtual learning environment? - very interesting. While the LAMS Foundation is a not-for-profit there's also an interesting commercial cousin called International Pty Ltd. To quote:
“International Pty Ltd is a commercial services company set up to assist with implementation and technical support for LAMS, working in conjunction with the LAMS Foundation. It has the right to offer the LAMS Beta/Support Partner Program and LAMS support services, as well as commercial (ie, non GPL – see below) licenses for LAMS on behalf of the LAMS Foundation.”
International Pty Ltd look like it will be offering the LAMS Support Partner Program, a fee based support and other services package to assist with deploying LAMS.
