Are you an LMS naysayer? Do you have any idea what an LMS is actually capable of these days? Either way -- or whatever your LMS experience -- I heartily recommend this post from Dave Wilkins: " A Defense of the LMS (and a case for the future of Social Learning). So, yes, he's got a bit of a bias, but he certainly knows his way around an LMS. Tags: LMS It's a long read, but he makes it more enjoyable with swears. Dave is currently a bigwig at Learn.com. MORE >>

There is a need to look at porting some other critical learner and administrator side LMS functions to mobile platform/devices. Taking cues from some discussions with clients and prospects there is a clear need for moving more and more features of an LMS to a mobile version beyond notifications and assessments. There is certainly a small but strong need to port critical administrator functions to a mobile platform making it easier to administer the LMS on the go. Access to all notifications on mobile version as in the main LMS version. Access to Support center. MORE >>

In response to a query about why someone would question the concept of the LMS, I penned the (slightly altered, for clarity) response that follows: What seems to me to be the need is to have a unified performer-facing environment.  So I’d be inclined to couple an LMS with other tools, not assume I can get one that’s best in all it’s capabilities.  I was asked whether a social system and an LMS, each with the same features, would be equivalent. That’s the snake oil; and it’s SoMe, not LMS (it happened there, too, but that’s past). MORE >>

That said… Here are a few more LMS and LCMS options to consider: Nancy Safer [nancy@edcetratraining.com] at edCetra Training tells me they have a “mini&# LMS as part of their edXact! And while we’re mostly talking to people about it in terms of being able to see how SCORM Cloud works before they take the step of integrating it into their LMS, it could be used by anyone who needs a simple delivery system. in June with major design enhancements to be compatible with SharePoint 2010. Or if you aren’t using an LMS… why you made that choice. MORE >>

September 1 to November 18, 2010. The state of mapping APIs -  OReilly Radar , September 7, 2010. Welcome to the Decade of Games -  HarvardBusiness.org , September 9, 2010. Full Frontal Nudity Doesn’t Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA -  Forbes.com: News , November 14, 2010. Points of control = Rents -  Lockergnome Blog Network , October 29, 2010. The Data Bubble II -  Doc Searls Weblog , October 30, 2010. The SMAQ stack for big data -  OReilly Radar , September 22, 2010. But. -  Adaptive Path , September 30, 2010. Wait, yes. MORE >>