Washington State Course Management Review Update

Here is an update about the Course Management Review from the Distance Learning Council meeting.

• Everyone is concerned about cost and vendor responsiveness
• Two-part strategy
  • Decision support tool
  • Develop RFP specific to certain elements
    • Consortium
    • Single colleges
    • College groups
  • “Pick from” list document as deliverable

• Requirements
  • Creating list of features for RFP
  • Will send RFP to vendors late August/early September

• White Papers/Decision Tools
  • CMS decision criteria
  • CMS costs
  • Hosting strategies
  • Visioning studies

• Open Source Evaluation
• Also looking at open source CMS but they don’t respond to RFPs
  • Can look at companies that provide support for open source
    • Could get RFP from them