theory – D’Arcy Norman dot net https://darcynorman.net no more band-aids Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:21:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://darcynorman.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/crankforpeace3-552f33a1v1_site_icon-32x32.png theory – D’Arcy Norman dot net https://darcynorman.net 32 32 1067019 Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence https://darcynorman.net/2013/02/15/normans-law-of-elearning-tool-convergence/ https://darcynorman.net/2013/02/15/normans-law-of-elearning-tool-convergence/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:12:51 +0000 http://darcynorman.net/?p=16535 Continue reading "Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence"]]> Maybe more of a theory than a law, but still:

Any eLearning tool, no matter how openly designed, will eventually become indistinguishable from a Learning Management System once a threshold of supported use-cases has been reached.

They start out small and open. Then, as more people adopt them and the tool is extended to meet the additional requirements of the growing community of users, eventually things like access management and digital rights start getting integrated. Boil the frog. Boom. LMS.

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