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In a thoughtful commentary published in Inside Higher Ed earlier this year, my friend and colleague Lev Gonick, vice president and CIO at Case Western Reserve University, proclaimed that “course management systems are dead; long live course management systems.” This was one of his eleven IT predictions for 2009.

At a time when the Course or Learning Management System (LMS) has become an embedded, if not indeed an essential, element of the college experience for students across all sectors of American higher education, Gonick’s proclamation seemed, at face value, contrarian. But Lev focused his assessment primarily on the fate of proprietary systems (read Angel, Blackboard, and Desire2Learn):

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Posts by Amit Gautam:

* The Right Way To Go About Open Source LMS, 23 Oct 2009 in Learning Design & Learning Management & Upside Learning & eLearning

* Reseller program for UpsideLMS launched, 02 Oct 2009 in Learning Management & Learning Technology & Upside Learning

* Seven Tips for an Easy and Effective LMS Switch, 21 Sep 2009 in Learning Management & Learning Technology & Upside Learning

* Presenting UpsideLMS Version 4.0, 11 Sep 2009 in Learning Management & Learning Technology & Upside Learning

* Five Things Not to do While Selecting an LMS, 27 Aug 2009 in Learning Management & Learning Technology & eLearning

* Learning Management: What does a Training Company need an LMS for?, 21 Jul 2009 in Learning Technology & Training Companies & Training Outsourcing & eLearning Business

* Hosted vs. Behind-the-firewall LMS – How To Decide?, 01 Apr 2009 in Learning Management

via Amit Gautam | Upside Learning Blog.

For an eLearning initiative to be successful, strong leaders and champions are needed in the organization. It also needs a robust and reliable LMS solution amongst others great courses, proper alignment of the training function with the LMS, technical support for the entire setup, etc. The LMS remains a key link in the success chain.Is it any wonder that selecting the right LMS is not easy? I’d written a few posts on how to decide between hosted and behind-the-firewall option, what typical things training companies look in an LMS for, and a recent one on five things not to do while selecting an LMS. These posts were focused around making your LMS purchase easier, smoother and giving a positive return on the time invested in the process. These posts remain pertinent regardless of whether it’s your first LMS purchase or it’s a switch-over to a new LMS as they dwell on some basic, underlying principles.However, in this post I am trying to stress on specific concerns to take care of while ‘switching an LMS’. Why? Read on.

via Seven Tips for an Easy and Effective LMS Switch | Upside Learning Blog.

Mary Washington’s implementation of Word Press is quite impressive … http://umwblogs.org/
Jim Groom is the man to talk to about it, it’s his brainchild! http://jimgroom.net/about/

Update:
How-to for running a Word Press service.

[Via Peter Naegele at Oberlin College]