Is the LMS Obsolete?

The VLE/LMS is dead: This writer argues that the “virtual learning environment” or “learning management system” — such as Blackboard or Moodle — has been obsoleted by a collection of distributed apps that can accomplish the same thing.

Scott Leslie has coined the term Loosely coupled teaching, for the assembly of a number of different, third party apps to do your teaching with. […] I had something of an epiphany (okay, I know I’m slow) - whereas I have been using the odd application you could completely set up your course outside of the institution.

The writer outlines a combination of wikis, meeting systems, and blogs that could come together to subsume the traditional LMS.