Interesting post from the always interesting Michael Feldstein on BB shaving bits of the LMS to run as stand alone services in the cloud. The only core bits of an LMS are the gradebook and identity management...
Michael Feldstein writes an incisive post against statements by BB that open source - specifically Moodle - is inherently bad, dangerous and will ruin your institution. Must read!
Learning design should define the design of the learning platform. Michael Feldstein considers what it is we are really trying to do with education. Some of it covers trust and recommendation.
Feldstein lists the vendors with IMS Learning Information System (LIS) support. Includes Moodle but just via Moodlerooms it seems. On the SIS side just Peoplesoft (Oracle) with Banner committed to adoption.