iterating toward openness » lms http://opencontent.org/blog pragmatism over zeal Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:11:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ If Facebook Worked Like Blackboard http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/595 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/595#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:08:56 +0000 david http://opencontent.org/blog/?p=595 A question Shawn asked in writing about social objects last week made me wonder… What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)?

Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook:

  • shut down all the groups you belonged to,
  • deleted all your forum posts,
  • removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and
  • forgot who your friends were.

How popular or successful would Facebook be then? How popular or successful is Blackboard now? The closed learning management system paradigm is bankrupt.

]]> http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/595/feed 7