By Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed
Lou Pugliese, the president of Moodlerooms and a former executive at Blackboard, says that despite the new entrants, he is not concerned about losing customers. Notwithstanding new platforms that might imitate some of the functions of the institutionally prescribed LMS for students and faculty, he said demand for fully integrated campus-wide platforms remains high. Pugliese also cautions against ascribing too much credence to platforms that purport to harness social networks to improve learning. “Integrating the personal and academic worlds is still an early science that has not reached replicable scale in ways that have directly impacted student achievement,” he says. “…These tools end up requiring a lot of efforts on the users’ ends and there’s no larger authority. These all show great promise, but it will not be the immediate catalyst for change in and unto itself, the industry may be seeking.”
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/11/what-does-lms-future-look
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