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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/
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- 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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Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Learning Management Systems (LMS)
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The Open Knowledge Initiative
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January 1, 2002
The Open Knowledge Initiative presents an open specification for the development of educational applications and course management environments. This session will introduce the OKI architecture thr…
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2002 Annual Gartner-EDUCAUSE Update
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January 1, 2002
Academic institutions naturally wish to encourage a creative IT environment, but in a post-September 11 world, higher education institutions must work for a better balance between IT freedom and re…
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An Open Source Model for Academic Content Dissemination and Pedagogical Collaboration: An Oxymoron or Just Impossible?
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January 1, 2002
Good pedagogical applications develop when stimulated by sharing teaching and learning experiments and assessed critically in open discussion. The OpenCourseWare project exposes the aspects of teac…
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Pilgrim's Progress: The University of Plymouth Student Portal
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January 1, 2002
The University of Plymouth Student Portal provides a virtual learning environment and associated collaboration tools for 27,000 students, based on an enterprise-wide deployment of the Microsoft Exc…
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Mind over Matter: Transforming Course Management Systems into Effective Learning Environments
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January 1, 2002
Integrating best practices for "deeper learning" with the robust tools provided by course management systems creates an incredibly effective, engaging, and student-centered learning envir…
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Providing Library Instruction Utilizing Library, IT, and Faculty Collaboration: Posting Hot-Linked Handouts to Blackboard Online Courseware
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January 1, 2002
The presentation will examine collaborative efforts by classroom faculty in the Stetson University business school and library faculty in using a course management system to facilitate subject-spec…
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"Build It and They Will Come," But Will They?
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January 1, 2002
Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has built a Web site for each course using homegrown course management software. This presentation will examine the conventional wisdom that "…
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Looking for Snake Eyes: Risk Takers' Secrets of Success
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January 1, 2002
Some schools elect the "road not taken" in IT solutions. Whether abandoning Microsoft, building an OKI course-management system, or implementing an open source portal, the less-traveled p…
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Making the Campus Pieces Fit Together
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January 1, 2002
Several years ago, Middle Tennessee State University recognized a campus-wide need for tools that would provide students, faculty, and staff a better way to communicate and share information using …
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Roger Schank:
End Run to the Goal Line
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January 1, 1995
Roger Schank doesn't just talk about learning by doing; he builds computer-based courseware that won't do the job any other way. Roger Schank…
