AvilarWebMentorhttp://www.avilar.comSays it is an LMS and seems to be more oriented to
business as a cost-effective (low-cost) solution.
Blackboardhttp://www.blackboard.com/us/One of the two biggest along with WebCT. It purchased Prometheus in 2003 and WebCT in 2005 making it the dominant commercial
educational LMS.Academic Suite 8
released Feb. 2008.Blackboard
patented part of its technology in 2007 and successfully sued Desire2Learn
in 2008.Blackboard and the US
Patent Office should be censured and boycotted for this clearly wrong and
predatory initiative.Blackboard
also purchased Angel Learning in May, 2009 shrinking the educational LMS
even further.
CentraOnehttp://www.centra.comBest known as a web conferencing tool – one of the
early ones and still a leading one especially at post-secondary
institutions.Now owned by Saba (see corporate LMS section)
ElearningForceJoomlaLMS(Elearningforce Inc.) http://www.joomlalms.com/Joomla is an open source website content management
system.ElearningForce
has adapted it as an LMS and LCMS solution.
EpignosiseFront(Epignosis Ltd)http://www.efront.grBased in Greece.Website is in English.This is an open-source product.Epignosis
supports it.
Etech Group StudyWiz Virtual Learning Environment (Etech Group) http://www.studywiz.com/.Based in Australia.Also offer Fourpoint
Learning Delivery System for university and corporate training.
IBS/LearnwareHyperMethod eLearning Server (IBS - http://www.ibs-company.com/,
Learnware Company Limited - http://www.learnware.ru/).IBS is a large Russian IT company which
purchased Learnware in March, 2008.The Learnware
website is mostly in Russian.On
the IBS website, eLearning Server is described as a distance learning
system.They also offer an
authoring system called eAuthor CBT, a module
for building assessments called Assessment Tools and an LCMS called
eLearning CMS.They appear to cater
to the Russian market.
IntraLearn 5.0 (IntraLearn Software Corporation) http://www.intralearn.comThey also offer a program that works with Microsoft Sharepoint.
Jones e-education Software Standard (JESS) (Jones Knowledge Inc.) http://www.jonesknowledge.com/Jones e-education: The Software Standard® (JESS®) is an
online course management system with all the features needed for effective
online course delivery, proven capable of supporting tens of thousands of
users. JESS is available under the "dual licensing" model. Under
this model, Jones offers a free license to qualified academic
institutions, and a minimal-fee license to corporate entities and other
academic institutions.
Learning Objects Campus Pack (Learning Objects, Inc.) http://www.learningobjects.com/Appears to be plug-ins for course management
systems which add the capability for wikis and blogs.
Microsoft Learning Gateway (Microsoft) http://www.microsoft.com/education/learninggateway.mspxThe Learning Gateway from Microsoft is a
Web-based collaboration, communications, and content delivery framework
tailored for the education system. It enables teachers to manage their
administrative workload, empowers students to learn at their own pace, and
helps parents become more involved in their children's education.It is based on SharePoint.
Open Text FirstClasshttp://www.centrinity.com/
(This is a Canadian product which has evolved over 15 years and is now
a division of Open Text based in Waterloo, Ontario).
PLATO Learning Environment (PLE) (Plato Learning) http://www.plato.com.A suite of tools including assessment
and content primarily aimed at the formal education sector.
VTN Technologies Olé (http://www.vtn-tech.com/)
Edmonton, Alberta based company which aims its
product at both the corporate and education market.VTN Technologies was purchased by SilkRoadhttp://www.silkroad.com
in 2008 and the product was integrated into SilkRoadGreenlight.
WebBoard(http://www.webboard.com/)
primarily a collaborative communication tool for threaded discussions, email discussions, chat rooms, IM, RSS,
calendar, whiteboard, blogging, etc.Also called a class management
system.
