Google and Pearson Offer a Free LMS
Posted by Mark Bullen on October 15 2011 at 12:29 a.m.
They say there's no such thing as a free lunch but what about a free LMS?
"Today Pearson, the publishing and learning technology group, has joined the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with advanced social networking and community-building, and an open architecture that allows instructors to import whatever material they want, from e-books to YouTube videos. The program will launch through Google Apps for Education, a very popular e-mail, calendar, and document-sharing service that has more than 1,000 higher-education customers, and it will be hosted by Pearson with the intent of freeing institutions from the burden of providing resources to run it. It enters a market that has been dominated by costly institution-anchored services like Blackboard, and open-source but labor-intensive systems like Moodle."
Read more in the href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636">The Chronicle of Higher Educationhref="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636">
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