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by trabant00 1678 days ago
I find commercial LMSs to be full of dark patterns that substitute learning and value with gaming-like interfaces with achievements, medals, bars to be filled, check-boxes to be checked, Netflix-like hard to navigate to give the appearance of endless choice, lack of human curation so you can only find the most popular but not the most valuable and so on.

If your interest is in selling then yes, nobody has done the work for you for free. Why would they? Open source is geared towards sharing, not selling.
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867-5309 1678 days ago
having worked for a company which made LMS software I can vouch for this. buzzwords like "gamification" and "user stories" were bandied about daily with next-to-nil privacy concerns. want to implicitly record every student's interaction? there are a handful of APIs for that..

"The Experience API (or xAPI) is a new specification for learning technology that makes it possible to collect data about the wide range of experiences a person has (online and offline)."

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