In this article from Campus Technology, Malcolm Brown, executive director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) looks at the future of learning management systems. With an increasingly diverse student body and variety of course models, Brown argues that one single application will not be able to provide the necessary personalization and customization required. Brown and the ELI envision the future of digital learning environments as a component-based architecture in which individual applications, including an LMS, are “connected through open standards and able to exchange data.” Brown says that the LMS will still play an important role in the future—he sees digital learning environments using an LMS as the core user interface while augmented by side applications, or as a hub that other applications can hook into.