Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Towards eCampus

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2: Re: Towards eCampus (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
I think eCampus is the *only* and *last* chance .LRN will have in succeeding if it *quickly* points out it's strength due to package like Event Management, Customer Relation Management (read alumni connections), simple room reservation and so on. OpenACS has all these modules and the benefit that they have been developed for a whole genre of organizations (take Mailinglist Manager for Greenpeace, which makes a wonderful Alumni Attraction System, or Contacts, written for a high school being used by translation agencies and so on).

But this involves a total *rebranding* of .LRN, maybe even with a name like .CAMPUS. The chances of .LRN surviving as a plain LMS are gone and better competitors have taken the LEAD (look at Moodle and Ilias). The chance for .LRN lies in OpenACS and diversity of applications. If it can leverage that chance, then there might be a good possibility to outperform Moodle et al. for full university solutions. But the competition is fast and actually very good in integrating existing applications.