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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.

Articles and Reports

Vendors of Learning Management and E-learning Products, September 2012. This publication is a comprehensive 141 page list of LMS and E-Learning vendors.
A Post-LMS World, EDUCAUSE Review, January/February 2012.
Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2008.
Open Source Software in Education, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2008.

Web Seminars and Podcasts

Learning Management Technologies: Enterprise System or Consumer Good? Video Recording from the 2009 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
Selecting and Implementing a Course Management System for Your Campus, EDUCAUSE Live! August 5, 2009.
How Four Universities are Coping with CMS Market Consolidation, Podcast from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.

Commercial CMS/LMS Options

Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com/
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Desire to Learn http://www.desire2learn.com/
desire2learn folksonomy term
eCollege http://www.ecollege.com/index.learn

Open Source Options

Updated September 2012

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Using an Open-Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals: An Introduction to Class2Go: April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC
As universities dive deeper into online learning and MOOCs, what role can a platform play in meeting online learning goals? At Stanford, we discovered that developing and using the Class2Go open-so…
The Move to Open Standards: A Unifying Force to Get More from Your Enterprise Technology: April 18, 2013 | A session at the Enterprise IT Leadership Conference 2013
The emergence of digital devices, learning platforms, and applications promises easier access to a variety of content, increased productivity, and realization of personalized learning. Unfortunatel…
ERO Conversation: Ian Dolphin, Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation: February 11, 2013

Ian Dolphin is Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation. In this conversation with John Bucher, CTO for Oberlin College, Dolphin discusses the foundation's products and the benefits of com…
The Enterprise Application Market in Higher Education: October 25, 2012

Learn which solutions colleges and universities have deployed for 16 enterprise-level applications, ranging from financials to student information to CRM. Using data from the Core Data Service, t…
The Marketecture of Community: November 1, 2012

Brad Wheeler is Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for Indiana University and a professor of information systems in IU's Kelley School of Business. Ja…
What's Next for Campus Cyberinfrastructure? ACTI Responds to the NSF ACCI Reports: July 16, 2012

In February 2009, a joint workshop of the EDUCAUSE Advanced Core Technologies Initiative Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group (ACTI-CCI) and the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation …
The Kuali OLE: Deep Library Collaboration and the Release of a Community-Sourced Library Management System: November 7, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2012
The Kuali OLE Partnership, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is in the second year of a two-year project to build a community-sourced library management system. In this session, …
ERO Podcast: Cable Green of Creative Commons Talks About Openness: September 5, 2012

In this podcast, Cable Green talks about Open Access, Open Resources, and Open Policies. Cable Green is director of global learning for Creative Commons. …
The 2011 Enterprise Application Market in Higher Education: June 14, 2012

Key Findings Almost every college and university (>95%) delivers a set of six core applications: student information, HR/payroll, finance, e-mail (for faculty and staff and for students)…
Student Success Plan: Improving Retention and Success with Open-Source Software: April 11, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
The Student Success Plan (SSP) supports and enables processes and interventions designed to increase the persistence, success, and graduation rates of targeted students. Through holistic counseli…

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