Guest e-Literate blogger Michael Statton describes a project in which Facebook is designed to complement rather than compete with the traditional LMS. Developed by Inigral, it offers a “private, secure application on Facebook.” The attention to privacy could nicely address the lingering dilemma of mixing purely social groups with purely academic — domains that perhaps a significant group of students and faculty would prefer to keep separate. He also explains that schools can integrate whatever branding strategy they have by doing things like designing unique skins. It seems to me that this might have some good potential to expand since it moves adoption of instructional software beyond confining binaries.
