Given the growth of services available on the net on a rapid pace, and the growth in the number of users of these services, it seems reasonable that some of them just (like browsers did) will eventually become commodities (in some sense). A lot of these services are based on existing and growing specialized databases, which again re-enforces the importance of the users, also as creators of value-added. Moreover, the concept of mash-ups is becoming common in the generation of new services or combination of services.
Would it make sense to think of LMS’s as shells that would capitalize on existing services, and provide internally just those services inherently proprietary, such as grade recording, syllabus information, etc.? Let’s say there was a way to establish policies in this more decentralized environment, would such a model make sense? If not, why? And if it makes sense (even if partially), how far are we from such environments? Or are we already there?
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