<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>

Bonk said that administration's ideas about open courses are consistent with the "convergence" he sees taking place in online learning. There is a growing belief that for many kinds of courses, there are best providers whose work can be made available online, there are large numbers of students who could benefit from those courses, and those who might benefit don't necessarily have a lot of money.