This week Blackboard announced a merger with WebCT. This news has been buzzing around our campus. What will this mean for education? Many people are speculating…
Read the article from highered.com
On the open source front, the Sakai Project, released its own announcement earlier this week.
“Sakai Partners Launch Sakai Foundation for Open Source Software”
“The Sakai Project today announces the creation of the Sakai Foundation to provide a permanent home for the growing Sakai Community. As a non-profit, membership corporation the Sakai Foundation will provide Sakai developers, adopters, and users a place to coordinate their efforts.”
Sakai "a community source software development effort to design, build and deploy a new Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) for higher education" along with Moodle, a CMS, are strong contenders on the open source market for those creative minds with limited budgets.
As education budgets tighten, more colleges and universities are thinking and rethinking their CMS decisions. What will be the future of CMS, both free open source and privately owned, and education? It's something to think about.
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