Blackboard Inc. today announced the launch of Blackboard Education Open Source Services, a new effort to support clients using open source education technologies. With the announcement, the company will continue to focus on its flagship Blackboard Learn ™ platform as well as ANGEL and Edline, while also helping institutions successfully manage open source learning management systems (LMS) including Moodle and Sakai.

Blackboard Inc. today announced the appointment of Charles Severance, a longtime leader and one of the founders of the Sakai community, to a senior role to lead the company’s initiative on the Sakai open source learning management system (LMS).

by Marc Parry The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is closing a grant program that financed a series of high-profile university software projects, leaving some worried about a vacuum of support for open-source ventures. Mellon’s decade-old Research in Information Technology program, or RIT, helped bankroll a catalog of freely available software that includes Sakai, a course-management [...]

The GoingOn Community Platform integrates the latest social networking, collaboration and publishing technologies to enable schools to create vibrant online communities and transform silos of information into an open social knowledge network.

July 6, 2009
While the open source movement has taken off in course management systems, with Moodle and Sakai as alternatives to the dominant Blackboard, the administrative side of the house has been almost entirely corporate. While some colleges use home-grown systems, the norm has been to use any of a number of vendors for systems that allow colleges to manage and report on budgets, billing and many other functions crucial to running a college. These administrative software systems cost millions of dollars to install and manage, and any malfunctions can be hugely frustrating to institutions.

April 2009
When refer to Open Source Learning Management System, many people will think of Moodle. Well,there’s nothing wrong with Moodle, but it certainly isn’t the only open source LMS out there. There are 10 Open Source LMS alternatives to Moodle.

March 1st, 2009
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February 8, 2008Open Source in Higher Education Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D. Professor The University of Southern Mississippi Steve.Yuen@usm.edu and Patrivan K. Yuen Technical Services/Systems Librarian William Carey University pyuen@wmcarey.edu 2008 Creating Futures Through Technology Conference, Biloxi, February 8, 2008