Reflection Week 11: Learning Management Systems

This article points out some weaknesses of Learning Management Systems (LMS) including the limitation of interactive nature on learners, confusion among learners in early stage of using LMS, centrally controlled contents limiting learners' ecology, etc. However, LMS will benefit learners most in content-rich course. The author then suggests LMS to include fuctions like expansion to repond to learners, allowing sychronous collaboration, enabling connection between learners and content and allowing learners to explore in various areas of interest.
I agree with the author that no single tool can do all the best, especially LMS. The author stresses the importance of learning environment in a way that LMS can work comprementary with other tools like RSS, blogs, wikis, etc.
As such, I understand why we are encouraged to use so many CALL tools to assist in our learning in this course. Sticking to only one learning tool will only limit our connection with one type people in the field, while blogs and wikis can enable us to exhange our ideas with people in the field even overseas.