This would be extremely useful - institutions are are the mercy of functionality offered by their LMS, unless they want to run 2 or more. A common open platform would make it much easier to bootstrap open courses without having to spin up infrastructure on each campus, or go through RFP processes to license products at each institution.

how do these signature pedagogies fit with possible patterns of interaction described by the video game research methods?

is it a platform? discussion? what IS it? it's pretty cool, whatever it is.