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70 Serco Learning Skillspace Learning Platform (Serco Learning)

http://www.teknical.com/ and http://www.serco.com/ Based in UK They

purchased Teknical

71 Schoology (Schoology, Inc.) https://www.schoology.com/ A free web-based

fully hosted and fully managed learning management system and configurable social network

72 Spanngle Academe (Spanngle SoftSolutions) http://www.spanngle.com/ An

integrated suite which includes an LMS, ePortfolio, Video Lecture Composition and Delivery, and a College Management System

73 Spiral Universe Spiral 2.0 (Spiral Universe Inc.) http://www.spiraluniverse.com

Spiral 2.0 is an integrated software suite used by schools for management and administration More a complete student information system that includes course management than just an LMS

74 Studywiz Spark Dynamic LearnSpace (Studywiz Pty Ltd)

http://www.studywiz.com/ Provide tools for elementary and secondary education

as well as mobile and ePortfolio solutions Based in Australia and has North American and European offices

75 SunGard Higher Education Luminis Platform (SunGard Higher Education)

http://www.sungardhe.com/ SunGard is a technology consulting company that offers a wide range of solutions for post-secondary education institutions They offer the Epsilen Environment and the rSmart Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment In April, 2011 announced integration with Pearson LearningStudio

76 Synaptic Global Learning ALMS - 4DL HITE (Synaptic Global Learning (SGL))

http://www.sgleducation.com/

77 SynapticMash LearningQube (SynapticMash, INC.)

http://synapticmash.com/index.php/learningqube Includes EduQube,

ExamQube, StudentQube, DataQube and MashQube Acquired by Promethean World Plc (http://www.prometheanworld.com/) in July 2010 Promethean is a UK based supplier of interactive white boards and an online teacher community http://www.prometheanplanet.com/

78 TeleTOP (Teletop B.V.) http://www.teletop.nl/ Based in the Netherlands Website

is in Dutch

79 Texas State Technical College (TSTC) vushi® Learning System (vLS) (Texas

State Technical College) http://www.vushi.org/ Created specifically for educators using virtual worlds like Second Life® for teaching and learning Available in two versions – vLS Pro and vLS lite

80 The Learning Edge EQUELLA LCMS (The Learning Edge Pty Ltd.)

http://www.thelearningedge.com.au/ Australia A learning content

management/learning object repository system Now owned and offered by Pearson Education http://www.equella.com/

81 The West Education Network (TWEN) (Thomson Reuters)

https://lawschool.westlaw.com/ Developed at a law school for law schools Now owned by Thomson Reuters/Carswell/Westlaw

82 Timecruiser CampusCruiser (Timecruiser Computing Corporation)

http://www.campuscruiser.com/ An education oriented LMS

83 Time To Know Digital Learning Platform (Time To Know, Inc.)

http://www.timetoknow.com/ A platform and curriculum designed for one-to-one computing classrooms Currently available for fourth and fifth grade math and

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84 WebStudy Course Management System http://www.webstudy.com/ A hosted

solution May include MyWebStudy Tutor to allow non-linear, customized

learning for students

85 White House Business Solutions Learning Management System (White

House Business Solutions (P) Ltd.) http://www.whitehouseit.com/Products.asp Also offer Link2School management tools Based in India

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Open Source Education LMSs

Open source systems such as these are gaining increased recognition and adoption by both educational organizations and some companies Although the software is free, substantial institutional support is necessary, so the total cost of ownership must be addressed One useful case study is the article “Why We Switched to Sakai” by Timothy

M Chester of Pepperdine University

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/10/06/why-we-switched-to-sakai.aspx

1 .LRN (.LRN Consortium) http://dotlrn.org/

2 ATutor (University of Toronto) http://www.atutor.ca Developed at the University

of Toronto

3 Bazaar http://sourceforge.net/projects/bazaar/ Bazaar is MySQL based system

that includes Web Conferencing, IRC chat, etc

4 Bodington http://bodington.org/ implemented and supported by a wide group of

educational institutions, led by Oxford, UHI and Leeds

5 BuddyPress ScholarPress Courseware http://buddypress.org/ BuddyPress is

a plug-in for WordPress (http://wordpress.org/) which makes it a social network ScholarPress Courseware is another plug-in which gives WordPress LMS

capabilities

6 Caucus http://www.caucus.com

7 Chamilo http://www.chamilo.org/ Evolved from Dokeos but split from them and

the second major versions of Dokeos and Chamilo are different Based in

Belgium

8 Claroline http://www.claroline.net/

9 ClassWeb (UCLA) http://classweb.ucla.edu/

10 CWIS (Collection Workflow Integration System)

http://scout.wisc.edu/Projects/CWIS/ A learning content management/learning object repository system developed as part of the Internet Scout project at the University of Wisconsin

11 Datatel Intelligent Learning Platform (Datatel, Inc.) http://www.datatel.com/ A

customized solution based on Moodle for post-secondary institutions

12 Docebo LMS http://www.docebolms.org/doceboCms/ Docebo is an e-learning

suite that contains an LMS (for online courses), and a CMS (for web portal

building) Scorm support

13 Dokeos (Dokeos) http://www.dokeos.com Based in Belgium, Dokeos is an

elearning and course management web application translated into 34 languages

14 Drupal http://drupal.org/ An open source “Content Management System” with

communication tools which is often implemented as an LMS in both education and business

15 EctoLearning (Ecto, LLC) http://www.ectolearning.com Not technically open

source but available free

16 edu 2.0 http://www.edu20.org/ Not technically open source, the basic system is

free but you pay for additional features and technical support

17 EduFolio http://edufolio.sourceforge.net/ Originally developed by Terra Dotta,

this is an open source LCMS

18 eFront (Epignosis Ltd) http://www.efront.gr Based in Greece Website is in

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19 Eledge (University of Utah) http://eledge.sourceforge.net/

20 Elgg http://www.elgg.org/ Open source learning platform – creating communities

of learners

21 ETH Zurich dLCMS (Dynamic Learning Content System)

https://www1.ethz.ch/dlcms/

22 Etudes (Etudes Inc.) http://etudes.org/ An organization which supports

institutions with customized versions of Sakai

23 Fedena (Foradian Technologies) http://www.projectfedena.org/ Based in India

Built on Ruby on Rails Described as an ERP for maintaining all school records

24 Fedora http://www.fedora-commons.org/ An open source learning content

management/learning object repository system developed at Cornell University

25 Fle3 http://fle3.uiah.fi/ University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland

26 Ganesha http://www.anemalab.org/ Website in French

27 Google CloudCourse (Google)

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/05/cloudcourse-enterprise-application-in.html

28 ILIAS 4 e-Learning http://www.ilias.de/docu University of Cologne Germany

29 Internet Course Assistant http://www.nicenet.org/ Nicenet is an organization of

Internet professionals who donate their time to provide services for the Internet community Internet Course Assistant provides web based conferencing,

personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to

a variety of learning environments

30 Instructure Canvas (Instructure Inc.) http://www.instructure.com/ An Internet

hosted open source LMS, free for teachers

31 Jasig uPortal (Jasig) http://www.jasig.org/ A portal framework for higher

education Associated with Sakai

32 Kewl.NextGen (KNG) (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

http://kewl.uwc.ac.za/ This link leads to a log-in page at UWC Unclear if the system is available for use by other institutions

33 LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) http://www.lamsinternational.com

Based at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia (www.mq.edu.au)

34 Learning Management System http://learning-management-system.info/ A very

basic open source system

35 LON-CAPA (http://www.lon-capa.org/) LON-CAPA is a Learning Content

Management System that originated in the College of Natural Science at

Michigan State University

36 Magnolia CMS (http://www.magnolia-cms.com/) Magnolia International Ltd is a

Swiss company that supports the software Primarily marketed to businesses Actually an open source “Content Management Suite” but is used as a Course Management System by the Medical Sciences Division of Oxford University, UK

37 Manhattan Virtual Classroom http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/ An open

source system developed at Western New England College While it calls itself a virtual classroom it is really a course management system

38 Metacoon (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) http://www.metacoon.net Based in

Germany

39 MimerDesk http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/516760/MimerDesk.html

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com MimerDesk is an open source web-based collaborative learning and groupwork environment

40 Moodle (open source) http://www.moodle.org Probably the most widely used

open source system Developed by Martin Dougiamas in Australia There are numerous companies who provide services to clients to implement, manage and host it These include Moodlerooms (http://www.moodlerooms.com/), Lambda Solutions (http://www.lambdasolutions.net/), Odyssey Learning

(http://www.odysseylearn.com), ClassRunner (http://www.classrunner.com), Loom (http://www.loomlearning.com/) and DualCode (http://www.dualcode.com) Datatel http://www.datatel.com/ is an ERP designed for higher education and Moodlerooms have partnered with Datatel to offer a complete integrated system Moodlerooms have dubbed its Moodle based LMS "joule"

41 MyiCourse http://www.myicourse.com/ Not technically open source but a free

web-based service for developing and posting courses Primarily aimed at

smaller organizations that want to develop courses Advertiser supported

42 OLAT (University of Zurich) http://www.olat.org/

43 openelms http://www.openelms.org/ Marketed as a business solution Includes

authoring (Jackdaw) and video integration

44 Open LMS http://openlms.sourceforge.net/ Hosted by NTNU in Norway

45 PASS-PORT (Innovative Learning Assessment Technologies (ILAT), LLC)

http://www.pass-port.org/, http://www.ilat.org/ An on-line system that allows students to submit work for systematic assessment - an add-on for LMS

46 Pearson OpenClass (Pearson Education, Inc.) http://www.joinopenclass.com/ A

free LMS integrated with Google (Technically a Google App rather than true open source) announced in October, 2011 Pearson is the largest education company

in the world but has so far had little impact on the LMS market This

announcement could change that although it has been met with some skepticism

47 Sakai http://www.sakaiproject.org/ Sakai has taken several other open source

initiatives under its wing which makes it a strong player As with Moodle there are companies that offer their own versions and support for Sakai Among those

is rSmart (http://www.rsmart.com/)

48 Site@School http://siteatschool.sourceforge.net/ A website content

management system for primary schools

49 Sloodle http://www.sloodle.org/moodle/ SLOODLE is an Open Source project

which integrates the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life® with the Moodle® learning-management system supported by Eduserv and hosted by San José State University

50 True Solution AlefMentor (True Solution, Serbia and Montenegro)

http://truesolution.net/ e-learning only Open source education solution Also offer Student Forum and S_Creator - a rapid development course authoring tool

51 University of Utah Open Learning Management System (OLMS) (University

of Utah, Department of Psychology) http://www.psych.utah.edu/learn/olms/

52 Whiteboard http://whiteboard.sourceforge.net/

Notes:

There are numerous other open source ELMSs listed at http://sourceforge.net Do a

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com search for “Learning Management Systems or “Virtual Learning Environments”

http://www.edtechpost.ca/gems/open_source_cms3.htm lists about 30 - they tend to be management systems for education environments developed at universities around the world

A useful source of information is Education Week Digital Directions at

http://www.edweek.org/dd/

Other lists of Open Source Education Management Systems can be found at

http://archive.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/vendors/opensource.htm and

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/

A helpful article on Education LMSs is available at

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/lms.htm

In 2003 a study was done by the Commonwealth of Learning regarding Open Source Course Management Systems A copy of this is available at

http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/03LMSOpenSource.pdf They also have an LMS Evaluation Tool User Guide at

http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/04LMSEvaluation.pdf

A very useful website comparing course management systems for formal education http://www.edutools.info/course/

Other evaluations of education LMS software have been done at

http://cde.athabascau.ca/softeval/products.php

Online Universities information: http://bestonlineuniversities.com/,

http://bestonlineuniversities.com/2010/25-e-learning-education-start-ups-that-could-change-the-world/

Rapid Learning Management Systems

There is a new breed of systems emerging which Tony Karrer has called Rapid LMS (http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/2009/10/rapid-learning-management-systems.html) They give access to individuals and groups of learners access to online learning either publicly or privately They usually include some management tools and reporting, course authoring tools, eCommerce features and community networking They also provide a platform where authors can publish their work Some of them for education are:

 Savicca LearnHub http://learnhub.com/ A social network for learning and

collaboration with a focus on the K-12 education sector They offer course authoring and publishing for teachers and e-commerce features They offered an LMS called Nuvvo which has now been shut down Based in Toronto, Ontario

 Sclipo http://sclipo.com/ Oriented to the K-12 sector, they offer course creation and publishing and social networking They also offer a virtual classroom called Sclipo Events which can be integrated with Moodle Based in Barcelona, Spain Website is not straightforward

 ClassRunnner (Classrunner.com, LLC) http://www.classrunner.com A Moodle hosting service It is oriented to teachers and schools who don't wish to set up their own systems It includes blogs, message forums, wikis, assignments distribution and collection, online evaluations, comments and gradebook, course calendar of events and assignments, online quizzes

 MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching

http://www.merlot.org) offers a free, online repository for educational materials

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 Rice University Connexions (http://cnx.org/) offers "an environment for

collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web."

 BrainHoney (Agilix Labs) http://blog.brainhoney.com/ Online Free for individuals

 it's learning (it's learning Inc,) http://www.itslearning.net For K-12 and

post-secondary education

 Time To Know Digital Learning Platform (Time To Know, Inc.)

http://www.timetoknow.com/ Described as “…an interactive core curriculum and a digital teaching platform, designed specifically for one-to-one computing classrooms

It is currently available for fourth and fifth grade math and reading/language arts.”

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Additional resources:

Rustici Software offers the eLearning Atlas http://www.elearningatlas.com/ - a list of “all” eLearning software with an emphasis on interoperability

“Choosing a Learning Management System” by Peter Berking and Shane Gallagher and published by Advanced Distributed Learning (the home of SCORM) dated April 15, 2011 http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/Lab/Learning%20Technology%20Lab%20Document s/Library/Choosing%20LMS%20v.2.4_20110413.pdf

Desire2Learn offers a paper called “How to Choose and Implement a New Learning Management System.” at http://www.desire2learn.com/resource/

B Online Learning (Australia) offers an “LMS Evaluator Tool” at

http://www.bonlinelearning.com.au/technology/

For a list of SCORM certified LMSs, go to

http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/Custom%20Pages/Certified%20Products.asp

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Ellen Behrens aLearning blog http://alearning.wordpress.com In particular her tutorial

on choosing a Learning Management System (LMS)

http://www.ellenbooks.com/content/ChoosingLMS/index.html

Saba (http://www.saba.com) provides a free sample RFP (Request for Proposals) for Learning Management Systems

More LMS/LCMS, etc vendors can be found at

 http://www.wbtsystems.com/partners/directory

 http://www.saba.com/partners/

 http://www.elearningguild.com/buyers_guide/?selection=doc.937 An extensive list of both products and services which goes beyond the scope of this list

 http://www.e-learningcentre.co.uk/eclipse/vendors/mgt.htm (This is a British site

so the list tends to be Eurocentric),

 http://www.capterra.com/learning-management-system-software

 http://elearning-india.com/content/blogcategory/19/38/

 http://www.trainingplace.com/source/vendors.html

 http://www.e-learninglist.co.uk/

Resources previously available from GeoLearning

 Learning Strategy Blueprint

 LMS Requirements Checklist

 LCMS Requirements Checklist

 Learning Analytics Requirements Checklist

 Webcasting Requirements Checklist

 Talent Management Suite Requirements Checklist

 Courseware Evaluation Checklist

 E-Learning Needs Assessment

 E-Learning RFP Template

 Building a Business Case for E-Learning

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On Jan 5, 2011, GeoLearning was purchased by SumTotal Systems As a result, the following useful tools no longer seem to be available SumTotal has its own set

of resources available at

http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/resources/whitepapers.html

KMSI is now offering KMSI.TV with a number of tools and presentations

Suddenly Smart http://www.suddenlysmart.com website offers some useful comparisons

of various authoring tools

Brandon Hall http://www.brandon-hall.com and Bersin & Associates

http://www.bersin.com have a number of research reports available for sale on the topic

of Learning Management

Elearning! Magazine http://www.b2bmediaco.com/elearning/magazine.php

Chief Learning Officer magazine and other resources http://clomedia.com/

The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) http://www.astd.org/ One

of the key resources offered is Learning Circuits (ASTD’s Source for E-Learning)

http://www.astd.org/LC/

International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) http://www.ispi.org/

Training Magazine http://www.trainingmag.com/

Research and Markets http://www.researchandmarkets.com/ publishes a wide range of reports including business training and education Prices for most of the reports are quite reasonable

The book “Education for a Digital World - Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from around the Globe” was published by the Commonwealth of Learning in 2008 and is available free for download at

http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/edDigitalWorld.aspx or for $12 at

http://www.crownpub.bc.ca/ The second edition is an entirely new pair of volumes with a great deal of new material and is available at

http://order.openschool.bc.ca/Product/CourseDetail/search_education%20for%20a%20d igital%20world_7540006163

Tony Karrer offers a blog at http://elearningtech.blogspot.com/

eLearning Learning (http://www.elearninglearning.com/) is a blog that attempts to

consolidate the best information about eLearning

Craig Weiss also offers a blog on E-Learning He calls it E-Learnning 24/7 and it can be found at http://elearninfo247.com/ Includes an LMS comparison tool at

http://elearninfo247.com/comparison-tools-templates/lms-comparison-tool/ and

directories

Tony Bates has a blog at http://www.tonybates.ca/ on e-learning and distance education resources

Articulate http://www.articulate.com provides some interesting blogs on eLearning

 Dave Moxon's Articulate eLearning Blog at

http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/ reviews various LMSs

 The Rapid E-Learning Blog at http://www.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/ where Tom Kuhlmann provides many articles and tips particularly on using PowerPoint

as an authoring tool

By Don McIntosh www.trimeritus.com Trivantis offers the Everything eLearning Blog (http://www.trivantis.com/blog) to support Lectora and the Rapid E-learning Round-up blog (

http://www.trivantis.com/snap/e-learning-blog) to support Snap!

A useful short blog by Richard Cowles

http://www.prescientdigital.com/articles/learning/understanding-learning-management-systems/

Subscribe to Google Alerts http://www.google.com/alerts for Learning Management Systems, Elearning, etc

My own website http://www.trimeritus.com has several other resources as well

Kats, Y (2010) Learning management system technologies and software solutions for

online teaching: Tools and applications Hershey, PA: Information Science

Reference (IGI Global).ISBN-10: 1615208534 A book primarily focused on

educational systems available from Amazon

Notes:

It is interesting to note that the major IT companies – Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and Intel – each offer some products but don’t seem to have a clear strategy in the Learning Management space and the products they do offer are often difficult to find on their websites It seems that they are there mostly for existing customers

Microsoft has several products in the eLearning space none of which can be described

as a learning management system With the exception of Live Meeting, they seem to hide them well

 Live Meeting http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/FX010909711033.aspx A web conferencing/virtual classroom tool Formerly PlaceWare Microsoft offered the original NetMeeting product as part of its Windows operating system but it is no longer supported They offered Windows Meeting Space on Windows Vista but

it does not seem to have been included in Windows 7

 ESP http://www.microsoft.com/esp/ A 3-D simulation development tool

 Live@edu A suite of applications to help students collaborate on the Internet

including: Office Live Workspace, Windows Live SkyDrive, Windows Live

Spaces, Microsoft SharedView Beta, Microsoft Outlook Live, Windows Live Messenger, and Windows Live Alerts

 There is a general site that offers solutions for schools and universities

• http://www.microsoft.com/education/solutions/

 Sharepoint Server Sharepoint is a content management system that Microsoft

developed for collaboration, portals, enterprise search, enterprise content

management, business process and business intelligence Numerous companies have built LMS solutions on SharePoint or have integrated other LMS solutions with it

• http://www.sharepointlms.com/

• http://www.mindkey.com/products/hcm/performance/

• http://www.nusoftsolutions.com/

• http://www.intralearn.com

• http://www.operitel.com