<p>What if Facebook worked like Blackboard (or pretty much any other LMS)? </p> <p>Imagine if every fifteen weeks Facebook:</p> <ul> <li>shut down all the groups you belonged to, </li> <li>deleted all your forum posts,</li> <li>removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and</li> <li>forgot who your friends were.</li></ul>

Udutu brings to the eLearning community the world's first LMS designed to run on popular Social Networks such as Facebook.

Online spaces are blurring, as universities that podcast and text their students have shown. The Jisc project manager, Lawrie Phipps, explains how the battle lines are being drawn: "Students really do want to keep their lives separate. They don't want to be always available to their lecturers or bombarded with academic information."

<p>I believe there are three primary reasons why an enterprise would want to “manage its knowledge”:</p> <p>One, to share learning, so that the same mistake is not made multiple times.</p> <p>Two, to share learning, so that activities get sped up.</p> <p>Three, to share learning, so that people are motivated to learn and to teach.</p> <p>To share learning.</p>

Knowledge management is not really about the content, it is about creating an environment where learning takes place. Maybe we spend too much time trying to create an environment where teaching takes place, rather than focus on the learning.

But what information is it that is actually being "leaked" through Facebook by these irresponsible employees ?<br><br>The article gives no specifics, making me wonder if the threat is real or just imagined by the corporate control freaks.