This is a good article from Audrey Watters where she talks about the influence traditional LMSes (aka blackboard) had on education technology and how the open web as a platform offerst a better alternative where peers have ownership and agency.
http://www.hackeducation.com/2014/09/05/beyond-the-lms-newcastle-university/
If we think about new technologies like the Web as facilitating learning networks and as learners and learning communities as nodes on those networks, we can see a very different “shape,” if you will, to education technology than what the learning management system enables.
The Web versus a Wall. Distribution rather than seclusion. Reciprocity rather than recitation.
Nodes and networks need not be forcibly centered around the instructor, for starters. Learners — and we are all learners, not simply those who are formally enrolled in classes — can have say in what they create, how they create it, where they share it, how long they retain it, what it looks like.