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A short post, but very pointed--if Facebook worked like an LMS, no real community would ever develop. Questions the whole idea of closed educational systems.
<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>