New York Times moves archives to Epsilen LMS

[Marla Coffey]

Here's an interesting combination of technology, journalism, education, and commerce--using an LMS (learning management system, typically used for online courses and increasingly for business communication and collaboration) to publish a hundred and fifty years of New York Times archives. Now the NYT can skip the hard copy publishing process entirely and get their articles to readers with a click of the mouse. It's an innovative use of a service once known only to the education community.

Here's a good summary in Bryan Polivka's blog.

Here's the full story from Reuters.

So if the New York Times is re-purposing the power of the LMS, what's next? Who's already out there using them in unexpected ways, and what does the future hold--not just for the LMS, but for the providers, users, and everyone in between? Could an LMS creep into your discipline--into industry and commerce, science, sociology, anthropology, IT, politics and public service, even government?