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Which LMS do you use and why?
Agree with Rebecaa and Asif, but IMHO everyone should start thinking about moving away from LMS systems altogether. Really an LMS should be called an RMS because it's reporting more than it's fostering learning. If you were thinking purely about how people could "learn" you wouldn't use any of the LMS systems, because despite some doing social media better than others, they all are about one piece of content displaying in one particular course and as a general rule don't include much flexibility/adaptability.
In that regard any content management system would be far superior to any of the LMS systems mentioned for displaying content. Most LMS systems are structuring content (and courses) in a paradigm that may not even really exist 5 years from now.
I'll get off my soapbox now, but instead of thinking about what features any particular LMS system has that we need, we should all be thinking about what delivery platform the learners will want and that will work the best. Granted, I understand the need for reporting/regulators, but I think the LMS systems are putting us all in boxes that are soon going to be unnecessary.
There's a great article on Search Engine Watch about rewriting the rules of fiction and video. Strangely enough my first thought was how could an LMS system deal with this future and of course the answer I came up with is that they probably can't.
Todd
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