What products is LIS considering?
We are looking at three options: Angel, Moodle and Sakai. In addition, Blackboard Enterprise remains a consideration for us, as does the option to not upgrade at all, should the results of our process (see below) lead to this conclusion. Moodle and Sakai are Open Source products used widely on campuses in the US and the world, and which have received the recommendations of such organizations as NITLE and EDUCAUSE. In addition to being attractive products in their own right, Dickinson is a member of NITLE, which offers reasonably priced hosting options for these two products. We are considering Angel because, based on the experience and research of our staff, it is an excellent product with a reasonable price that offers a good balance between ease of use and features appropriate to our environment. It shares with the Open Source products an open architecture, which will allow us to freely develop software connections to our other enterprise applications, such as the Gateway. Angel also
