WebCT and the Web
Quotes: "It seems to me that WebCT is not building the web, but preying upon it. It feeds on the web, but gives nothing back. WebCT makes it possible for instructors to link and link and link to other people's websites, while contributing nothing back to the web for others to link to, for others to use...
Comment: Short article...but I strongly encourage you to read it. This is the reality of the Internet that proprietary LMS are trying to create...locked down, for-profit education. If an LMS is promoted as the heart of online learning, the keeper of the gate can include/exclude those who pass through...and create the environment they desire to charge for "education". This is just the beginning...and the reason for initiatives like Open Education