Moodle or mishmash

Today's project: need to finalise a proposal and recommend a system for managing learners and their learning for a project for HEFCE the UK Higher Education Funding Council. University-linked, but not on campus. My boss says the behemoth of all learner management systems (Moodle) should be the choice. I say no. I think the day of large customised systems - however open - is gone. The fact that it is open source is yesterday's battle. The new frontier is: how to read and amalgamate the unstructured mass of content that everyone creates everywhere in a messy undisciplined way. No one wants to be trammelled into an institional VLE. They want to stay on the pages where they have their own passwords pictures and followers. And do their learning from there.

Martin Weller's blog on this is the starting point

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