Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

Abstract

What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.