I am growing weary of the shouting match termed the Great LMS Debate and don’t plan to waste any more breath on it. Others are articulating the issues well. Check these out:
In The LMS Must Die, Mark Berthelemy highlights all the learning needs that LMS don‘t deal with.
All the time we have LMS’s, organisations will feel bound to continue to put content inside it that should, instead be sitting elsewhere, in a searchable (and thus findable) state. So, my call is for organisations to think more strategically about their learning materials. Consider where they should be best placed for most effective long term gain, and perhaps even closing the LMS to new materials…
Michael Feldstein applies Clayton Christensen’s model of disruptive innovation to predict the future of the LMS market. Why buy Saba when you can get what you need from Moodle?
More and more, we’re seeing schools doing LMS evaluations concluding that the various LMS platforms are functionally equivalent. Now, it’s not literally true that these systems are functionally equivalent. There are differences. What these schools are saying, though, is that most of the differences are ones that don’t matter.
The LMS debate isn’t about whether or not we should have LMSs. Rather, the issue is whether the LMS merits the fixation of the training community. Managers of learning need to focus on all the other important apps available to them.
I have other fish to fry. So do you.
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