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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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Developing a Program and Course-Level Assessment Process Using a LMS and E-Portfolio: March 14, 2012 | 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…
Colleges Mine Data to Tailor Students' Experience: December 12, 2011

"Educators have long held that the interactions between students and professors defy simple reduction. Yet in several areas of campus life, colleges are converting the student experience in…
7 Things You Should Know About First-Generation Learning Analytics: 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…
U-Pace: Facilitating Academic Success for All Students: December 15, 2011

Key Takeaways The U-Pace instructional approach combines self-paced, mastery-based learning with instructor-initiated Amplified Assistance in an online learning environment. …
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…
How Are Students Actually Using IT? An Ethnographic Study: November 29, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin describes an anthropological ethnographic analysis of student practices relating to the use of information technology on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) c…
Copyright and Fair Use: Trends and Resources for 21st-Century Scholars: January 12, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012
With the increasing use of images, music, and other kinds of audio-visual resources as well as the delivery of course content through online course management systems like Blackboard, we are facing…
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…
Authoring with ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab): February 23, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE West/Southwest Regional Conference 2012
ANVILL (A National Virtual Language Lab) is the University of Oregon's suite of web-based speech tools designed for language teachers and students at all levels. Wrapped in a Drupal-based CMS …

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