Although many schools haven’t even started using Learning Management Systems (LMS), they may already be starting their demise, or at least a major overhaul. According to Mark Crosslin, founder of the EduGeek Journal blog, an online community that promotes news and views from the ed. tech. world, claims educators are looking for alternative to the packaged LMS. Educators who have limited funds are turning to free tools like Facebook, Blogger, Wordpress, and pbWiki to present material. In addition to costs being a disadvantage of current LMS, he believes current LMSs confine students to the application and does not expose them to the world. He suggests such improvements as including multilevel blog systems, social network components, and extension tools for continuous learning.
Crosslin’s Death of the Learning Management System is a 5 post series that can be found at http://www.edugeekjournal.com/blog/index.php?filtertype=site&filterselect=1&tagid=9 .
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Cyndi!
Do you think open source applications, such as Moodle, will cause a come back of the LMS model or have other Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs and social networking sites, have already overtaken the market?
I also found a reference to expanding the CMS to allow Web 2.0 tools, which lead me to think of how these closed systems have limited and pricey options. It was a post on a talk by Mike Wesch available at http://id.ome.ksu.edu/blog/2008/oct/31/laptops-down-moment/
Well, M.Fuller - I would say that LMS programs are stronger and more popular than ever. Most people that use Web2.0 wools use them alongside the LMS, but still tend to use the LMS heavily. Web2.0 tools are still only used by a small minority even in those cases. Moodle has proven to give some of the disgruntled ex-LMS users some satisfaction, but they are still stuck in that "walled garden" mentality.
Matt "aka Mark :)" Crosslin
Do you think that they will eliminate LCMS as well, or is this what will replace them? Though I have to agree with the cost issue free is generally better :)
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