LMS Team

General Resources

• Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives - from the Chronicle of Higher Education (9/12/09)
• Choosing a Course Management System is like Picking a Pet

Learning from Other Institutions

Many educational institutions across the nation have conducted LMS evaluations and have made recommendations in favor of one product or another. Below is a sampling of reports produced by various institutions:

Migrating to Moodle:

• NCCCS: Moodle Assessment Report (includes case studies of 4 colleges that have converted to Moodle)
• NCSU: Moodle Migration Announcement (or see this article from the Technician)
• UNC-Charlotte: LMS Evaluation Committee Report
• UNC-Pembroke: Final Report of Bb/Open Source Evaluation Committee

Piloting Sakai:

• UNC-Chapel Hill: Sakai Pilot Final Report

LMS Options

Blackboard

• What's ahead for Blackboard: Project NG

Moodle

• About Moodle - links to excellent documentation and to a demonstration site where you can play with Moodle)
• Using Moodle, 2nd ed. (O'Reilly Press)