Stephen Downes

This post is from the 'what have they done lately?' department. Murray Goldberg is known widely as the developer of WebCT, a learning management system that competed with, and was eventually acquired by, Blackboard. Later, he was the developer of Silicon Chalk (acquired by Horizon Wimba) and Brainify. Today he is known as the founder and President of Marine Learning Systems (www.marinels.com), the creator of MarineLMS - the learning management system designed specifically for maritime industry training. This post is by him, outlining the role of the LMS in Marine Learning. (Photo of Murray Goldberg: Marine Link).