Analysts see changes ahead for LMS market after a summer light on news @insidehighered - 2 views
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“what an LMS means in a post-LMS world,”
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Instead of bloating their products with as many new features as they can develop, vendors are increasingly letting other ed-tech companies do the work for them, opening their systems to outside developers.
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an open platform where faculty members are free to browse and embed the tools they want to use -- for example quizzes from Khan Academy, plagiarism detection from Turnitin or a homegrown solution -- regardless of whether they logged into Learn or Sakai, and regardless of whether their system has its own, similar tool.
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interoperability standards developed by the IMS Global Learning Consortium, which enable developers to create tools that work with any learning management system
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Instructure may be the furthest along. Last year, the company introduced the educational tool app store EduAppCenter, and this June, it rounded 100 partnerships with developers.
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Severance still predicted that the current market will give way to an open ecosystem within five years, but getting there, he said, requires vendors to cooperate where they now compete.