After reading Watters (2014), I took time to reflect on what timeline would interest me most. With the variety of Learning Management Systems (LMS) I have supported in my role and used as a student, I thought it would be interesting to map out a timeline of some of the most used LMS in the higher education sector.
Please review the timeline below, and comment on any dates that surprise you in the timeline.
References
Watters, A. (2014). The History of the Future of Ed-Tech, Chapter 1. In The monsters of education technology. Licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA.
Watters, A. (2014). Un-fathomable: The Hidden History of Ed-Tech, Chapter 2. In The monsters of education technology. Licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA.
Thanks for this timeline, Brandon! I would be interested in seeing pivotal changes in the LMS environment over time as well. For instance, when did Blackboard acquire WebCT (or other systems)?
And, if you haven’t seen it, e-Literate has a worthwhile timeline on this topic: https://mfeldstein.com/state-higher-ed-lms-market-us-canada-fall-2017-edition/
Thank you very much for this resource, George. I did not come across this, but will be sharing it with my colleagues now. Yes, seeing pivotal changes such as new advanced features and acquisitions would be very interesting. I will keep this in mind, incase it comes up in the criteria for future assignments in the MALAT program.
Hi Brandon, thank you for your help getting my timeline working. I enjoyed scanning through these, it is interesting thinking that some of these platforms are 20 years old- when it comes to technology, they are doing pretty well. I remember being introduced to Moodle around 2010- I was not a fan of the platform. In your timeline it shows that Google Classrooms are a LMS. I always thought it was not a LMS as it does not have a gradebook system embedded within it, you would have to create one in Google sheets. When doing your search, what was your definition of a LMS?