The document discusses the transition from enterprise learning management systems (LMS) to new learning platforms. It provides four reasons for this transition: 1) the world around LMS has changed with new technologies, 2) the concept of interoperability has evolved, 3) open education and MOOCs have emerged, and 4) broad LMS adoption is just now occurring. This signals a move across the chasm as defined by Everett Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory, from innovators and early adopters to the early majority who need more holistic solutions. The bottom line is that both administrators and users will need easy platforms to select tools to meet the needs of all types of adopters.

1. Farewell to the Enterprise LMS,
Greetings to the Learning Platform
May 13, 2014
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Presented by: Phil Hill
@PhilOnEdTech
MindWires Consulting and e-Literate blog

2. 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

3. Enterprise LMS: History

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

5. New Market Entries

6. 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?

7. On the Other Hand . . .
• Everything has changed!
• 4 reasons to consider

8. Reason 1: World
Around LMS Has
Changed

10. Reason 2: Concept of
Interoperability Has
Changed

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

12. Reason 3: Open
Education and MOOCs

13. @PhilOnEdTech

15. Reason 4: Just Now
Getting Broad LMS
Adoption

16. Good Lens
• Everett Rogers wrote the
origin of much of
technology adoption
concepts!
• S-curve, categories of
adopters

17. The Chasm

18. 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

19. 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.

20. • 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

21. • 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