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Thursday, August 26, 2004
The Other Kids on the Block: Commercial Providers Grow Up in the eLearning Space - Syllabus

In a market that has been dominated by two big players, WebCT and Blackboard, how will other commercial vendors gain market share and thrive? Syllabus interviewed key executives at two companies—Unicon and Desire 2 Learn—about how they plan to continue to be successful in this difficult and evolving market. The market for learning management systems in higher education is changing. Open source environments—Sakai, OpenCMS, Plone, Moodel, Segue, and soon Harmoni—are not only alternatives to “black box” systems; they are points around which higher education may organize to influence market directions.


 



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