- Navigate 3.2.1 Tools for Deciding on an LMS Quest
Categorize the top LMS/CMS vendors associated with a specific learner (K12, Higher Ed., or Business) in your blog. Make a selection for what is the optimal LMS for the organization.
As indicated in this quest, the basic requirements for selecting an LMS are the following categories:
Need Analysis
Requirements Gathering Process
Vendor Identification
Request Information
Request for Proposal
Demonstrations
Vendor Selection
I chose to analyze K12 for the optimal vendor for this organization. According to the following website,
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/07/27/a-guide-to-k-12-open-source-lms-options.aspx , organizations such as K12 no longer limited to commercial products only. Commercial products, which are very expensive, are now being pushed out as the main LMS by the open source products such as Moodle. Other open source products considered by K12 are Sakai, Canvas, OLAT, ATutor, and CloudCourse. They analyzed their choices using the following functionality rubric (which uses the categories listed above).
K12 chose Moodle largely because of it popularity and familiarity among many school systems who were already using Moodle.
Although it is not on the list to analyze, I find in interesting that Gwinnett County has gone to an LMS that they call eClass, It is run by Brightspace (D2L). Even though these students are in a face to face classroom, they still use an online LMS to provide material to their students. This is indicative of the trend I see in a blend between face to face and online learning.
As indicated in this quest, the basic requirements for selecting an LMS are the following categories:
Need Analysis
Requirements Gathering Process
Vendor Identification
Request Information
Request for Proposal
Demonstrations
Vendor Selection
I chose to analyze K12 for the optimal vendor for this organization. According to the following website,
http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/07/27/a-guide-to-k-12-open-source-lms-options.aspx , organizations such as K12 no longer limited to commercial products only. Commercial products, which are very expensive, are now being pushed out as the main LMS by the open source products such as Moodle. Other open source products considered by K12 are Sakai, Canvas, OLAT, ATutor, and CloudCourse. They analyzed their choices using the following functionality rubric (which uses the categories listed above).
K12 chose Moodle largely because of it popularity and familiarity among many school systems who were already using Moodle.
Although it is not on the list to analyze, I find in interesting that Gwinnett County has gone to an LMS that they call eClass, It is run by Brightspace (D2L). Even though these students are in a face to face classroom, they still use an online LMS to provide material to their students. This is indicative of the trend I see in a blend between face to face and online learning.