Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Recommended: "In Defense of the LMS"

Are you an LMS naysayer? Do you have any idea what an LMS is actually capable of these days?

Either way -- or whatever your LMS experience -- I heartily recommend this post from Dave Wilkins: "A Defense of the LMS (and a case for the future of Social Learning). It's a long read, but he makes it more enjoyable with swears.

Dave is currently a bigwig at Learn.com. So, yes, he's got a bit of a bias, but he certainly knows his way around an LMS.

3 comments:

iliveisl said...

an LMS can work very well. it gets screwy once customization starts to occur, thereby messing up SCORM standards

use Moodle, it rocks, has a zillion plugins and an awesome user community that can answer anything faster than any paid vendor

my 2 cents

Paul said...

Keep seeing Moodle everywhere and its the one platform I've not dived into. What about Elgg - is it not the more grown up version? Perhaps it's time to get my feet wet and see...

thanks for your 2 cents worth.

Cammy Bean said...

ELGG is an open source social networking platform, a bit different from an LMS. We have done some Moodle-ELGG integrations -- creates for a nice, rounded environment.