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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

Updated September 2012

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MOOCs on Campus: Experiences from the Front Lines: February 5, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting
Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania are early adopters of the Coursera MOOC platform. Spanning humanities, social sciences, engineering, mathematics, science, and medicine, these c…
Implementing a New LMS: Brown Promotes Collaboration, Reflection, and Learning: February 4, 2013 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting
In this poster session, we will offer three different departmental perspectives on leveraging the adoption of a new technology tool to rethink teaching and learning: Instructional Technology (ITG…
Student Engagement through Online Commenting and Discussion: October 2, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012
NowComment, a free high-end tool for discussion and close reading of online documents, has been used successfully at UVA (Sakai) and other universities for the past three years. This presentation…
Learning Analytics Impact Upon Course Design and Student Support Services: April 11, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
Combining data from lecture capture with measures of student success, survey data and faculty feedback analytics promotes development of predictive tools to support students as well as evidence-b…
LMS Data and Student Achievement: Which Variables Are Meaningful?: April 11, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
It has been suggested that analysis of LMS tracking data may allow early identification of students at risk of academic failure. But which online tracking variables indicate meaningful activity i…
Learning Analytics: The LMS Perspective: April 12, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
With respect to learning analytics, the community is still working its way through some fundamental questions. Perhaps the most fundamental of all is how best to define or describe learning analy…
The Online Student Profile Learning System: a Learner-Centered Approach to Learning Analytics: April 12, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
In April of 2011, Central Piedmont Community College received a Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) grant for CPCC and six partner colleges. The idea is to take our proven technology-based…
Using Learner Analytics to Identify and Promote Effective Teaching Practices: April 11, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
UMBC's most active LMS course requires students to pass preclass quizzes before accessing and submitting later assignments. Consequently, student activity has skyrocketed, and scores are 20%…
Adaptive Learning and Predictive Analytics - Sponsored by LoudCloud: April 11, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session
See a quick introduction on the LoudCloud Ecosystem, the preferred choice for those who believe more is possible and aren't satisfied with the limitations of first-generation learning manage…
Seminar 02A - Synthesizing-Student Perceptions Data, the Horizon Report , and the Gartner Hype Cycle as Lenses for Evaluating Technology-Based Instructional Innovations: February 13, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2012 Annual Meeting
This session will present the Horizon Report, the Gartner Hype Cycle, and student perceptions as gathered in a survey of students at the University of Florida on course management system (CMS) feat…

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