... start-ups that focus on authoring tools, virtual classroom, learning management, content, services. When you look back ... get eaten by lower-cost, e.g., open source players. And innovation comes from nimble start-ups who can attack ...

... are using virtual classrooms, chat rooms and discussion groups, games and sims, >30% are using open source ...

Good post by Harold Jarche - Where are open source learning applications? In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is:Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and several ... agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts...First, open ... stable. If you look at the slow creep up the application stack of open-source solutions (OS, app server, database, CRM), then its easy to see the pattern. So, we should naturally expect to see open source solutions emerge where we ...

There are a lot of e-learning things. LMSs, LCMSs, Virtual Classroom Tools. Online courses on Windows and biology 101 and ethics. The question used to be, what would be bundled? Would EPSs bundle LMSs? Would IM bundle virtual classrooms.Then the question is, what will be merged/acquired. Which LMSs and LCMSs will merge? Will content vendors merge with other content, or with tools?Now there is open source. How we will do what we want to do is getting increasingly interesting.