Farewell to the Enterprise LMS, Greetings to the Learning Platform

May 13, 2014 !!

Presented by: Phil Hill @PhilOnEdTech

MindWires Consulting and e-Literate blog

Re. Using Skype versus creating a copy within the LMS:

“It took a long time for developers to realize what others were using.”

MindWires Consulting and e-Literate blog

Enterprise LMS: History

Source: GSV Advisors http://gsvadvisors.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/gsvadvisors/GSV%20Advisors_Fall%20of%20the%20Wall_2012-06-28.pdf

New Market Entries

On One Hand . . .

• Still a landscape of ~5 LMS solutions!

• LMS Core Functions: Rosters, Grades, Assignments, Submissions, Class Messages / Discussions!

• What’s the big deal?

On the Other Hand . . .

• Everything has changed!

• 4 reasons to consider

Reason 1: World Around LMS Has

Changed

Reason 2: Concept of Interoperability Has

Changed

Source: IMS Global http://www.imsglobal.org/images/celticposter.pdf

Reason 3: Open Education and MOOCs

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Reason 4: Just Now Getting Broad LMS

Adoption

Good Lens

• Everett Rogers wrote the origin of much of technology adoption concepts!

• S-curve, categories of adopters

The Chasm

Two Sides of the Chasm• Innovators & Early Adopters: Willing to take risks, influential!

• Early Majority: Much slower adoption, need holistic solutions!

• Late Majority: Approach an innovation with a high degree of skepticism and after the majority of society has adopted the innovation

Intrinsic Characteristics of Innovation

• Relative Advantage: How improved an innovation is over the previous generation.!

• Compatibility: The level of compatibility that an innovation has to be assimilated into an individual’s life.!

• Complexity or Simplicity: If the innovation is perceived as complicated or difficult to use, an individual is unlikely to adopt it.!

• Trial-ability: How easily an innovation may be experimented. If a user is able to test an innovation, the individual will be more likely to adopt it.!

• Observability: The extent that an innovation is visible to others. An innovation that is more visible will drive communication among the individual’s peers and personal networks and will, in turn, create more positive or negative reactions.

• First ~15 years of Internet Ed Tech has led to development of enterprise LMS

• We are just now moving into new concept of Learning Platform

• The market changes are subtle but significant

The Bottom Line

• Apparent need for platform to easily allow both admin selection of tools and user selection of tools, allowing innovators / early adopters and majority

The Bottom Line