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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
- 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
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learning Management Systems (LMS)
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Using Analytics at UMBC: Encouraging Student Responsibility and Identifying Effective Course Designs
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April 30, 2013
Higher education invests considerable resources into technology for academic purposes, but understanding whether those instructional technologies improve learning is often a difficult questio…
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An Electronic Calendar for Organizing Assessments in a Large Faculty
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April 1, 2013
Key Takeaways Using data from an electronic unit of study outline system , the University of Sydney's Faculty of Science built an assessment calendar to organize assessment…
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Blazing the Trail in Texas: Work in Progress on the Texas Affordable Baccalaureate
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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…
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Increasing Student Success: Evaluating the Effectiveness of U-Pace Instruction at UWM
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September 6, 2012
Two faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee developed the technology-enabled instructional approach known as U-Pace , which combines self-paced, mastery-based learning with in…
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Chapter 15: The Open Learning Initiative: Enacting Instruction Online
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May 2, 2012
A chapter from Game Changers Ross Strader and Candace Thille This chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License New technologies are oft…
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Using Learner Analytics to Identify and Promote Effective Teaching Practices
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April 11, 2012
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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%…
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Student Perceptions of Course Management System Tools: Implications for Evaluation and Adoption of Online Tools in Higher Education
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February 28, 2012
Given an expectation of digital literacy among students, why should we worry about student perceptions of CMS tools ? For the same reason exemplary instructors stay aware of their students’ …
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Developing a Program and Course-Level Assessment Process Using a LMS and E-Portfolio
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March 14, 2012
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012
With a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation, Mount Ida College created an assessment process that empowers faculty to reflect on the teaching and learning process and effect change. The dire…
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7 Things You Should Know About First-Generation Learning Analytics
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December 6, 2011
Learning analytics (LA) applies the model of analytics to the specific goal of improving learning outcomes. LA collects and analyzes the “digital breadcrumbs” that students leave as th…
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Expertiza: Scalable Reviewing for Student-Authored Content
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September 14, 2011
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A session at the ELI 2011 Online Fall Focus Session
When multiple authors-especially student authors-collaborate to write a single work, quality control is very important. The instructor/editor rarely has time enough to review each contribution mu…
