You are absolutely right -- we don't need no stinking lms.

A distributed learning network, on the other hand, would be a very useful thing indeed.

Toward that end, we recently launched http://openacademic.org, an open source project integrating Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki.

We (FunnyMonkey) and the team leads from Elgg are partnering to make this happen. Should be interesting...