Learning Management Systems (LMS)

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

• ATutor http://www.atutor.ca/
• Claroline http://www.claroline.net/
• Dokeos http://www.dokeos.com/
• Instructure http://www.instructure.com/
• Moodle http://moodle.org/
• Moodle folksonomy term
• Sakai http://sakaiproject.org/portal
• Sakai folksonomy term

Updated September 2012