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

Open Source Options

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Blazing the Trail in Texas: Work in Progress on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate: April 25, 2013

“What we’re talking about is a different satisfactory academic progress model than most of you are used to,” said project leader Van Davis to a large group of faculty from the two Tex…
2012 CDS Executive Summary Report: January 24, 2013

This report summarizes results from the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service (CDS) survey. Using a matched set of 616 CDS 2011 and CDS 2012 participating institutions, this year’s report is a detaile…
Classroom and Instructional Technology: December 18, 2012

This CDS Spotlight focuses on survey results related to classroom technology . Creating effective learning environments in higher education classrooms with technology poses an ongoing challe…
Education Achievement Authority: Nolan Elementary-Middle School: November 28, 2012

Charged by the governor of Michigan to transform the lowest five percent of the persistently lowest achieving schools in the state while simultaneously developing a new approach to educating st…
Barriers to Adoption of Online Learning Systems in U.S. Higher Education: May 1, 2012

This Ithaka S+R report is a landscape review of important developments in online learning today. It is the first in a series that will provide leaders in higher education with lessons learned …
The EDUCAUSE 2011 Core Data Service Report: Highlights and Insights into Higher Education Information Technology: January 31, 2012

Authors: Susan Grajek , Vice President for Data, Research, and Analytics, EDUCAUSE Pam Arroway , Senior Statistician, EDUCAUSE This report summarizes results from the 2011 EDUC…
Applied Liberally: Google Apps for Education across Campus and as LMS Alternative: March 14, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
Wellesley's summer 2011 move to Google Apps for Education has already resulted in widespread use of Groups, Docs, Calendar, Sites and Gmail, to the extent that some faculty are using GAE for c…
Building Teaching with Technology: Structure and Infrastructure: March 13, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
This presentation will describe a successfully implemented staged model for pedagogically based blended learning using the Blackboard LMS and the concurrent institutional changes and community buil…
Taking the Library to the LMS: A Collaborative Solution for Online Classrooms: February 23, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference 2012
Just as the Millar Library is a noteworthy building at the heart of Portland State University's physical campus, we sought to make the library's online presence central to the student exp…
Connecting College Faculty to Open Content Repositories: Challenges and Opportunities: September 14, 2011 | A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session
This presentation will describe the Open Course Library, an ongoing project to redesign Washington's 81 highest-enrolling college courses as open educational resources. During this multiyear…

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