Raccoon Gang

06/05/2026

📖Schools today can choose from different LMS options, and that choice has a real impact on how learning is organized. Some platforms are ready-made, others give more flexibility – each comes with its own pros and cons.

In the material below, we focus on open-source LMS platforms for schools and also look at the pros and cons of Canvas LMS. ⏩If you want to see other open-source LMS options, read the full article below and explore more to make a right decision: https://cutt.ly/bt2wnboz

06/03/2026

📚 Good training rarely happens by accident.

Before learners see a course, someone has already made decisions about objectives, audience, content, activities, delivery, and assessment.

Our new article looks at the training design process and the work that happens before training reaches learners.

📖 Read more: https://cutt.ly/Tt0bIm5L

Learn what the training design process is, including key steps, examples, and best practices. Discover how to design effective training programs that deliver results

05/29/2026

Open edX Conference, LMS selection webinar, new articles, new conversations.

Here’s a collection of everything the Raccoon Gang team was working on, discussing, and sharing over the past month.

📩 Read the latest digest: https://cutt.ly/Ft1jpZ73

05/27/2026

Project-based learning changes the role of learning itself. Instead of memorizing information, learners work with real tasks, collaboration, decision-making, and practical problem-solving.

👇 In our new article, we look at how project-based learning works in practice, where it fits best, and what it actually takes to build it inside modern LMS platforms: https://cutt.ly/wtMLvKtJ

Learn what project-based learning is, how it works, and why educators use it. Explore examples, benefits, and strategies for implementing project-based learning.

05/26/2026

🔸Moodle is a popular LMS. Most people in education have heard of it, and many have used it in some form. But usually, it’s treated as just another platform with a set of features.

At the same time, Moodle has a lot going on beyond that – how it’s built, how it connects with other systems, and how it holds up when usage grows. In this material, we looked at these things in more detail: what Moodle can actually do and why it matters in practice.

👉Read the full article if you want a clearer understanding of how Moodle works: https://cutt.ly/DtMW0aSm

05/25/2026

🎉Our new article on LMS selection for higher education was recently published by eLearningIndustry.

In the piece, we look at how universities can evaluate LMS platforms more practically – beyond feature lists and marketing comparisons. Requirements, scalability, integrations, long-term maintenance, implementation realities – all the things that become important very quickly once the project actually starts.
A topic we’ve been working with for years across higher education LMS projects.

🎉 Read the article: https://cutt.ly/UtMaIJdS

Choosing a higher education LMS? Use this practical framework to evaluate integrations, accessibility, reporting, and governance.

05/22/2026

📸 A few photos from Volodymyr Chekyrta's talk at the Open edX Community Conference.

As official Open edX partners, the Raccoon Gang team always supports open knowledge sharing around the platform, real implementations, and practical experience working with LMS solutions at scale.

As Volodymyr said after the session: "we get a huge amount of information from AI tools, online platforms, and digital content now, but live conversations and presentations still leave a different kind of impression".

The final day of the conference has already started. If you still haven’t had a chance to meet our team — come talk to us about projects, partnerships, Open edX, and online learning.

05/20/2026

Moodle has been around for more than 20 years, but the interesting part is not its age — it’s why so many organizations still choose it.

Open-source flexibility, a huge plugin ecosystem, detailed role management, customization, integrations. At the same time, Moodle often requires more technical involvement than teams expect at the start.

🤔 So where does Moodle actually work best — and what should you know before implementing it? We break down Moodle LMS features in the full article: https://cutt.ly/6tB4fI4s

05/19/2026

🎉Day one of the Open edX Community Conference 2026! The Raccoon Gang team is already in Salt Lake City, caffeinated, slightly jet-lagged, and ready for a few very busy days of talks, meetings, demos, and conversations around Open edX and online learning.

This year we’re here to share what we’ve been building, meet with partners and clients, and spend time with the community that keeps this ecosystem moving forward.

And yes — we brought fortune cookies 🥠 Not saying they can predict the future of your LMS project… but the conference seemed like the right place to test that theory.

Meet Raccoon Gang’s experts:

🔸 Daryna Gornitska
🔸 Volodymyr Chekyrta
🔸 Anastasia Abyzova

If you see us at the conference — come say hi.

05/18/2026

Choosing an LMS usually starts with feature comparisons — and quickly turns into dozens of tabs, vendor pages, and confusing differences between platforms🤔 Open-source LMS or cloud-based? Corporate training platform or course business solution? Which features actually matter for your use case, and which ones will only complicate administration later?

👇In this guide, we break down different LMS types, common challenges teams face during LMS comparison, and questions worth answering before creating your shortlist. We also included a quick LMS quiz to help narrow down the options faster: https://cutt.ly/ytBv6uYl