Information Systems Connection

The market for Learning Management Systems (LMSes) in small higher educational institutions is changing. Proprietary products like Blackboard and Jenzabar’s eRacer are being supplanted by the open source products Moodle and Sakai. Vendors of proprietary LMSes are finding it difficult to compete with the features, flexibility and value provided by open source offerings.  Information Systems has prepared a case statement for changing from Blackboard to Moodle for our future LMS.  Click here to access the case statement.

On most work days I can honestly say that I begin my day thinking “How lucky can I be?”  Our work is purposeful and hopefully transforming for our students; and the campus community is appreciative of the effort the Information Systems department team members put forth to ensure that the best technology we can afford is available and running well.  But every now and then something happens (more…)