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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/
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eCollege http://www.ecollege.com/index.learn

Open Source Options

Updated September 2012

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The 2010 Campus Computing Survey: Two Decades of Data, Information, and Insight About IT Planning and Policy Issues: October 14, 2010 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2010 Annual Conference
Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in U.S. higher education. This session will present the …
Transitioning Learning Management Systems: Making the Move at the Enterprise Level: October 29, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference
Maryland and Delaware have each had to transition to a new enterprise learning management system. Maryland moved from two separate systems to a single commercial system, while Delaware moved from o…
The 2007 Campus Computing Survey: October 24, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
Begun in 1990, the Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of computing, e-learning, and information technology in American higher education. The session will present t…
Into the Frying Pan: Lessons Learned Deploying and Supporting Sakai in a Liberal Arts Environment: October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
In the summer of 2006, Mount Holyoke implemented Sakai, an open source learning management system, to replace WebCT and provide diverse capabilities through a single portal. This presentation will …
Implementing, Supporting, and Maintaining Sakai: October 25, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference
Learn how Indiana University has successfully implemented the world's largest installation of the Sakai open source collaborative learning environment on eight campuses statewide. This present…
Integrating Innovative E-Learning Systems: Challenges and Solutions from LAMS: October 11, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
The range of innovative e-learning systems continues to grow, including those available as open-source software. The key challenge is integrating disparate systems to create a unified learning plat…
Haute Software: Juggling Open-Source and Vendor Software: October 11, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
This session will illustrate lessons learned and provide recommendations for institutions contemplating the support of open-source applications while maintaining enterprise-level vendor software. S…
Moodle for the Masses: Deploying an Enterprise-Wide, Open-Source CMS: October 11, 2006 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
A successful enterprise-wide deployment of a course management system (CMS) involves overcoming three key hurdles: a course site for every course, integrated enrollment, and integrated authenticati…
Sakai and the Higher Education Community: The Road Ahead: October 21, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
Sakai has delivered early versions of a collaborative learning environment and has set the terms of the debate in the higher education community concerning future infrastructure software choices. L…
The SEA Framework: An Open-Source Framework for Building Custom Content Authoring Tools: October 19, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
The Learning Solutions group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed and will release as open source a simple editing/authoring framework for building specialized authoring tools that …

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