Global success, Global failure of the CMS/LMS needs to stop — from Drupal Education for Educators
I know you’re saying “but Bryan, didn’t you mean just the Drupal solution”, no. Drupal is not the answer. Plone, WordPress, Moveable Type, Joomla, PHPNuke, Moodle, NOTEPAD is not the answer. We need to start looking at systems development based on a services and scalability perspective. No one system is going to solve that problem (emphasis DSC). We need to start looking at what systems do well and then play to those strengths in the creation of a service.
So, what I’ve proposed above is more of a communication between and across systems. Things like single sign on systems and simple modules within each project could allow users to flow seamlessly between them. RSS and XMLRPC calls could allow session / user display data to flow seamlessly across each. The most important thing though is that any system can be any CMS/LMS choice. Example of that….
- Core LMS / data system is Moodle
- CMS is Drupal
- SMMS is Drupal
- Syllabus system is WordPress
- Communications system is Plone
- Blogging platform is moveable type
- Wiki collaboration via Wikispace (emphasis on bulleted points: DSC)