CMS Review & Selection Process - Overview

The first step was to determine what choices for other CMS products were available. After researching and talking to other universities, the alternatives most acceptable, Sakai and Moodle emerged as the two main Open Source CMS worth being evaluated. Open source products evolve through community cooperation and development and are usually more cost effective. These communities are composed of individual programmers and educators who freely develop and share product ideas. Both Moodle and Sakai offer solutions that can be comparable to and in some cases offer more flexibility with the current teaching and learning tools at East Carolina University.

CMS Review & Selection Process - Faculty

In selecting a new CMS, pedagogical issues focused around design, delivery, and interface of each product. The Faculty and students have been encouraged to participate, because the users of the product need to have a significant voice in this evaluation process in order to make it meaningful and reflective of our campus community and instructional technology needs.