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Sunday, October 31, 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. One notable project, the OpenKnowledgeInitiative (OKI) was funded in 2000 by the Mellon Foundation to provide a framework and proof of concept for an open source learning management system. More recently, Sakai, also funded by Mellon, has gone beyond that by promising a full-scale production open source learning management system by Summer 2005. Vendors wishing to compete in this marketplace must recognize the unique collaborative nature of higher education and the impact cooperative development efforts may have on their market strategies.
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