Archive for the ‘Learning Management Systems’ Category

7 Questions to Ask Open Source Vendors

Open source vendors can save institutions money and resources, but it’s important to ask the right questions up front to avoid surprises. Campus Technology Full Article

Problems plaguing UW’s online course management system

A technological glitch is confounding information technology experts and causing major headaches for some students and professors across the UW System as the 2012-13 academic year gets under way. eCampus News Full Article

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Collaborates with Desire2Learn to Enable Seamless Access to Resources via the McGraw-Hill Campus Digital Educational Service

Company collaborates with Desire2Learn to deliver its higher education resources to instructors directly from colleges’ existing LMSs, enhancing a seamless user experience that features single sign-on access and automatic registration Desire2Learn Press Release

With Desire2Learn Learning Suite 10, clients are experiencing the most advanced platform to date combining incredible usability and personalization with feature-rich capabilities

With Desire2Learn Learning Suite 10, clients are experiencing the most advanced platform to date combining incredible usability and personalization with feature-rich capabilities. Desire2Learn Press Release

The Wait is Over: The LMS and the ePortfolio Merge to Serve a Culture of Learning

“The CMS became the IMS became the LMS became…” A few short years from now, what will we tell our children about the storied past of the LMS? What will it become? In the 1990s, the course management system (CMS) emerged to help faculty manage their courses through the Web. The name morphed to IMS […]

Desire2Learn Announces Major Enhancements in Usability and Personalization with Desire2Learn Learning Suite 10

Simple meets sophistication in the latest version of Desire2Learn Learning Suite. This next generation learning platform offers enhanced ease of use, a more personalized learning experience, and a broader depth of tools and features based upon the feedback of hundreds of clients.Desire2Learn Press Release

Universities reluctant to use iTune U

In keeping with Steve Jobs’ vision of transforming education, Apple has expanded its iTunes U so that professors can now offer entire courses, not just lectures. Bay State Banner Full Article

Blackboard Buys 2 Leading Supporters of Open-Source Competitor Moodle

For years, colleges looking for course-management software considered a choice between Blackboard’s dominant commercial product or an open-source alternative such as Moodle or Sakai. Now Blackboard essentially owns the open-source alternatives as well.Wired CampusFull Article

Moodle Research Conference 2012

The Moodle Research Conference will become a major event for academics, researchers, experts and practitioners – sharing experiences, research achievements and innovative developments with Moodle. It is a unique opportunity to participate in an event dedicated to research and development (R&D) on learning and teaching carried out with Moodle. The conference will provide opportunities for […]

An LMS for Elite MOOCs?

Google artificial-intelligence guru Sebastian Thrun made a splash last month when he left Stanford University to start a company based on an A.I. course he made freely available last fall to tens of thousands of students on the Web. Now, two of Thrun’s former Stanford colleagues who conducted similar experiments have spun off their own […]