Providing students access to their grades is a frequently touted advantage of an LMS. Is it really an advantage or might a more “manual,” student-centered approach be even more useful?

• Spreadsheets vs. online gradebooks

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This 2011 slide show (not narrated; notes only) presents a nice overview of some trends in the world of the LMS (by Stanley Frielick, Director of Learning and Teaching at Aukland University of Technology)

• Future of the LMS – towards a more open and personalised learning environment 
  

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EDUCAUSE ELI (Education and Learning Initiative) publishes a very useful series of short (two-page) summaries on educational technology topics; several of these relate in some way to conventional Learning Management Systems and their alternatives. Here’s my collection of those 7-Things publications which are somehow related to LMS, ordered by date.

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Navigating the New Learning Ecosystem – May 2012 (PDF)

• Once considered the center of “digital learning,” the LMS is now considered just another component.

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT First-Generation Learning Analytics – December 2011 (PDF)

• An LMS is a primary source of analytics which may be used to understand a student’s learning process

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LMS Evaluation – May 2011 (PDF)

• Evaluating or not, this provides some good LMS background information 

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Privacy in Web 2.0 Learning Environments – September 2010 (PDF)

• One of the advantages of the LMS is to maintain privacy 

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT Personal Learning Environments – May 2009 (PDF)

• Should we switch from a focus on the conventional LMS, an institutional learning environment, towards student-centered, personal environments

7 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LMS Alternatives – July 2010 (PDF)

• There are good reasons to not use Moodle or another LMS 

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