Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes: > In my opinion, LMS should be just assignment giving and receiving > software, yet what should be learned and how, should not be limited by > the interface that is used for LMS. As teaching is not focused on the > interface, it has no limits. For example limiting students to use > browser only, or attempting to make every action of a student > figurable or understandable through browser only is not point of > teaching, as it is not widening the knowledge. Students should > have liberties to use any tools that are suitable for learning.
I agree with this. I think it is even easier for the student to do it with Techela than with Moodle or any web interface because sometime file transfer is not as eficient or privacy respecting with a browser. If Techela works as a git repository, then all files are already downloaded at the user and there is no problem if there is no connection or if the server is down. You can always pull the data later. I do think that Emacs can be configured to be as easy to use for the end user as is any browser based app. It can even be better tweaked. Emacs has the advantage that phone apps have. They are local and they are remote too. I was afraid to use something I have to configure myself. And it cost a lot of work to learn by myself. But end users have us as guides. They can learn fast. We can prepare their configuration and they can have the best of both worlds: hackability and usability with the power of freedom. My fiancee works in Emacs with ledger-mode to register all of our income and expenses. We can have any report we want. Other software is not as flexible and needs to be re-learnt every time there is an update. Using minimalism is an investment. You don't see the results immediately. But they become a net gain! "The only thing that Emacs lacks is a good text editor." :-D _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
