http://le.suny.edu/sln/sln_rpc_publicresponse.htm
In June of 2005 I pointed to SUNY’s Recommendations on their Learning Network’s Next Generation Strategy, which had been published on the web.
If you follow Michael Feldstein’s blog e-Literate (and you should) you’ll also have noted that in October of last year SUNY announced its plans to build an open source ‘Learning Management Operating System (LMOS),’ and as part of these plans issued a Request for Public Comment on this strategy.
SUNY has now made available the responses to this public request for comment. If you are a decision maker in a large post-secondary organization or system who is wrestling with the choices of what to do next around your course management system strategy, I strongly urge you to scour this site and soak up everything you find there. Rarely has there been a better ‘state of the CMS union (and potential future)’ picture gathered together in one place. I do wish a few of the other open source players’ voices were represented here, but it is rare to find this amount of in-depth discussion and feedback collected in one place. The SUNY Learning Network folks are to be commended both for their courage in the path they are blazing and the openness with which they have shared this material for all of our benefits. – SWL