The+Unintended+Consequences+of+Large+Scale+LMS+Adoption+in+Higher+Education

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_consequence

http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/index.php/Courses/CS_461/Museum_of_unintended_consequences


 * **Action Implemented in LMS** || **Intended Consequence** || **UN-Intended Consequence** ||
 * Bundle together a suite of different applications (e.g. discussion, quiz and tests, drop box) into a single application. || provide single sign-on access to a large suite of integrated teaching and learning tools || monolithic tools meant if an instructor didn't like one particular part of the LMS (say for instance WebCT's notoriously bad discussion forums) they would abadon the entire platform in favour of tools they liked, relegating the LMS to be an incredibly expensive grade submission and content management sustem for their course syllabus. ||
 * ||  || toothless standards mean vendors can effectively lock content in ||
 * || Make it easy for administrators to roll over courses at start of term and populate them new students || access to courses is lost at the end of each term ||
 * || Make it easy for administrators to roll over courses at start of term and populate them new students || access to courses is lost at the end of each term ||