LAMS is Java-based, GPL-ed software from Australia for designing learning activity sequences. Previously this year, the LAMS Foundation announced integration with Moodle. Today, LAMS announced integration with Sakai.
From the LAMS - Sakai media release:
The integration of Sakai and LAMS makes it easy for faculty to select existing LAMS "sequences," or author new sequences, and add these to their course pages. Students then access sequences via a simple link on their course page. The integration achieves “single sign-on" – once a teacher or student has logged into Sakai, no additional login is needed to access LAMS. For faculty, a LAMS sequence that is created in one course can be re-used or adapted for another course, or shared with colleagues anywhere.
From the LAMS FAQ:
LAMS is focussed on a very specific aspect of e-learning – sequences of learning activities, particularly collaborative activities. LAMS provides rich functionality for designing a “flow" of learning activities, especially where these activities rely on collaboration between students to drive the learning process. LAMS is a comprehensive system for the design and implementation of learning activity sequences – it includes an authoring environment, a “run-time" environment for implementation of sequences with groups of learners, and a monitoring environment so teachers can see student progress in real-time (and view past activities). It also includes a user administration system for system administrators. LAMS can include content delivery (and quizzes) as single-learner activities within a sequence, and you can point to content held elsewhere from within a LAMS sequence via a URL.
Flash-based walk-throughs of LAMS integrated in Sakai are available at http://lamsfoundation.org/integration/sakai2/walkthru/.
