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Learning Management Systems (LMS) - 425 Resources

Overview

Selecting and purchasing a learning management system has become a major financial and strategic decision for colleges and universities. As the commercial LMS vendor sector shrinks due to company consolidation, schools are considering open source systems as a viable option for their learning management needs. Please send us your RFPs, vendor analysis or other LMS selection process resources to share with the community.

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Commercial CMS/LMS Options

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Updated April 2012


Publications (155)

EDUCAUSE publications address a diverse range of professional challenges in higher education IT, from updates on current developments to explorations of important overarching issues. Listed below are the full range of research, reports and other publications that EDUCAUSE and its members have written about Learning Management Systems (LMS).

Item ID Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
ERM1032
06/10/2010 22,279
 
EQM1049
12/15/2010 1,941
 
CSD5982
12/21/2010 591
 
ERM1151
09/12/2011 5,528
 
ELI7079
12/06/2011 3,293
 
CSD6063
12/12/2011 99
 
ERM1216
01/23/2012 3,423
 
ERS1006
10/22/2010 18,397
 
PUB8008
01/31/2012 3,968
 
IT-HE
03/19/2012 294
 
PUB72034
05/02/2012 50
 
P7203CS14
05/02/2012 30
 
PUB720315
05/02/2012 45
 
EQM1045
12/15/2010 1,665
 
ELI7072
05/11/2011 2,874
 
ERM1137
05/31/2011 1,332
 
ELI7062
07/06/2010 11,368
 
EQM1140
12/15/2011 1,580
 
ERM1220
03/21/2012 1,822
 
ERB1117
11/29/2011 2,531
 
ERB1204
05/01/2012 1,581
 
CSD6101
05/01/2012 95
 
ELI7084
05/02/2012 896
 
PUB720313
05/02/2012 41
 
ECM1006
10/22/2010 639
 

Presentations (237)

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Item ID Title Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
E11_229301
10/20/2011 1,096
 
ELI11_223706
02/15/2011 218
 
ELI11_223791
02/15/2011 195
 
ELI091_223880
01/22/2009 22
 
ELI11_223709
02/15/2011 147
 
ELI11_223705
02/15/2011 45
 
ELI11_228722
02/14/2011 320
 
MARC12_241571
01/12/2012 112
 
ELI124_249047
04/11/2012 220
 
ELI124_249053
04/12/2012 134
 
ELI124_249054
04/12/2012 227
 
ELI11_223262
02/14/2011 222
 
MWRC11_221381
03/15/2011 115
 
ELI11_223908
02/15/2011 52
 
ELI11_223909
02/15/2011 210
 
ELI124_249028
04/11/2012 100
 
ELI124_249391
04/11/2012 204
 
ELI124_249091
04/11/2012 201
 
ELIWEB1011
11/01/2010 254
 
LIVE1030
11/05/2010 262
 
MARC11_218849
01/13/2011 164
 
MARC11_218787
01/13/2011 260
 
MWRC11_221351
03/16/2011 199
 
NC11_221888
03/29/2011 250
 
ELI11_224236
02/16/2011 224
 

Policies (1)

Item ID Title Resource Category Pub Date Views Rankingsort icon
CSD5482
Community Contributions
07/26/2007 702
 

Podcasts (12)

Name Views Post datesort icon
E10 Session Podcast: The 2010 Campus Computing Survey
  Play | Show Notes | Download (14.19 MB audio/mpeg)
75 01/03/2011
In Conversation: Student Engagement
  Play | Show Notes | Download (2.52 MB audio/mpeg)
264 08/03/2010
Podcast: Julio Lopez, Director of Distance Education Operations at the National College University in Puerto Rico
  Play | Show Notes | Download (1.63 MB audio/mpeg)
86 07/27/2010
Session: Darcy W. Hardy – The Forever Changing Role of IT in Online Education
  Play | Show Notes | Download (28.74 MB audio/mpeg)
184 02/25/2010
ELI Session: The Genius of "And" – Reconciling the Enterprise and Personal Learning Network
  Play | Show Notes | Download (17.76 MB audio/mpeg)
105 02/16/2010
Session: You Can't Change Learning with That Old Curriculum Management System – Designing the Next-Generation System
  Play | Show Notes | Download (13.51 MB audio/mpeg)
107 02/02/2010
E08 Podcast: An Interview with Evelyn Kay Ting, Assistant Vice President for Learning Environments at Empire State College SUNY - Changing to a New CMS
  Play | Show Notes | Download (9.59 MB audio/mpeg)
257 08/05/2009
E08 Podcast: An Interview with Shimizu Yasutaka, President of the National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan
  Play | Show Notes | Download (11.14 MB audio/mpeg)
1,055 12/18/2008
EDUCAUSE2006 Podcast: Using CMS as Early Warning System
  Play | Show Notes | Download (38.16 MB audio/mpeg)
4,204 03/17/2007
E2006 Podcast: How Four Universities are Coping with CMS Market Consolidation
  Play | Show Notes | Download (41.61 MB audio/mpeg)
3,395 01/24/2007
An Interview with Ed Meachen
  Play | Show Notes | Download (8.86 MB audio/mpeg)
4,103 12/18/2006
An Interview with Rob Abel
  Play | Show Notes | Download (18.12 MB audio/mpeg)
4,949 10/26/2006

Blogs (20)

EDUCAUSE hosts a number of blogs for its members. To view a list of all our blogs, click here.

Title Blogger Postedsort icon Views
ELI Online Spring Focus Session: View Program, Register Now Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE 03/30/2012 110
New ELI 7 Things... Explores First-Generation Learning Analytics Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE 12/15/2011 361
Financial aid fraud in online distance learning Jarret Cummings, EDUCAUSE 11/03/2011 1,093
Adrenna Inc. announces Learning Experience Platform, Educause 2011 Stephen Gilfus, Gilfus Education Group 10/16/2011 77
Millions of Student Exams, Tests and Data Exposed Stephen Gilfus, Gilfus Education Group 09/16/2011 269
ELI Releases New Brief on LMS Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE 09/12/2011 240
Open Standards for Interoperability Patrick Laughran, Framingham State University 05/16/2011 54
New ELI 7 Things... Explores LMS Evaluation Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE 05/12/2011 345
Who Will Buy BlackBoard? Jerry Bishop, Chippewa Valley Technical College 04/22/2011 196
Tune In November 5: Casey Green on Two Decades of The Campus Computing Project Ashlan Sarff, EDUCAUSE 10/29/2010 111
Just Published: Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2010 Ashlan Sarff, EDUCAUSE 10/25/2010 359
New ELI 7 Things... Brief Explores LMS Alternatives Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE 07/07/2010 196
LMS Evaluation and Review - Course Management System Evaluations Stephen Gilfus, Gilfus Education Group 06/06/2010 4,155
Resource Center Update - July 2009 Colleen Keller, EDUCAUSE 07/30/2009 112
Tune In August 5: Selecting and Implementing a Course Management System for Your Campus Peggy Kurkowski, EDUCAUSE 07/29/2009 263
Just Published: The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008 Colleen Luckett, EDUCAUSE 10/21/2008 1,192
The quest for sustainability in open courseware Paul Trafford, University of Oxford 07/15/2007 4,426
Why is there no clear leader among CMS / LMS / VLEs? Catherine Howell, The University of Melbourne 08/08/2006 7,023
Downes on Sakai Catherine Howell, The University of Melbourne 02/02/2006 5,783
Pocket Aces. Michelle Chua, The University of British Columbia 10/12/2005 3,710
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