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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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UK Universities Love Open Source: January 1, 2006

According to a survey by Open Source Software Advisory Service (OSS Watch), open source software on campuses in the United Kingdom has moved out of the shadows and into legitimate contention with p…
Open to Open Source: January 1, 2006

Open source software has found a permanent home on some college campuses. But according to a study released on March 1, 2006, by the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, open source produ…
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 …
.LRN: An Enterprise Open-Source Learning Management System: October 19, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
.LRN is one of the largest international open-source projects in educational technology innovation. Backed by the .LRN Consortium, its "out-of-the-box" core capabilities include enterpris…
Sharing Learning Designs: Building the LAMS Community Web Site: October 19, 2005 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
Learning designs or "learning activity sequences" represent flows of collaborative activities that are authored and run by teachers. The Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) is an o…
Blackboard vs....: January 1, 2005

Some higher education officials are wondering if in buying WebCT, did course-management giant wipe out the competition, or is open source the real competition? …
Models of Open Educational Resources: OpenCourseWare, Sofia, and the Open Learning Initiative: October 25, 2005

This research bulletin strives to clarify the complex landscape of open educational content by exploring the distinctions, challenges, and accomplishments among programs focused on opencoursewar…
Clair Maple Memorial Address: OpenCourseWare and the Emerging Global Meta University: August 8, 2005
Global connectivity via the Internet presents many challenges and opportunities for higher education. One major opportunity is the democratizing and empowering force of openly shared educational ma…
At the End of the Day We Will Have Given It All Away: The Convergence of Open-Source CMS and Open Courseware: October 20, 2004 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference
Modeled on the MIT Open Courseware Initiative, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District has founded Sofia (Sharing of Free Intellectual Assets), an effort that will publish open courseware f…

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