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Greetings LMS Summit-ers:  On Monday, August 9, a group representing most Washington community and technical colleges and public universities met to discuss future learning management system (LMS) plans. The meeting had three goals:  ** 1. **to establish a timeline for next steps, taking into account that 28 of the 34 community and technical colleges are using ANGEL, a product that will likely not be available after October 2014;  ** 2. **to find out if public universities are interested in working together with the community and technical colleges to negotiate a contract for a common LMS, and  ** 3. **to talk about the processes of reviewing potential LMS solutions and selecting one.  Using straw polls, the group agreed on a general timeline (see below) that will allow colleges who recently moved to ANGEL to stay on ANGEL as long as possible. The universities expressed interest in the benefits for WA students and faculty if we can agree to use a common LMS across WA public higher education. Community and technical college LMS decisions, funding and implementation will be guided by the State Board / Presidents / Trustees approved [|Strategic Technology Plan] (see Strategy I).  While a few colleges and universities are interested in exploring emerging “edupunk” non-formal LMS tools, the focus of the conversation was on an enterprise learning management system as defined by the eLearning Council: <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">An integrated software application designed for the secure delivery and management of instruction over the Internet for completely online, hybrid, and traditional face-to-face classes. Features include, but are not limited to, content delivery, collaboration tools, assessment tools, and integration with other campus systems. //

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> ** 1.  **All interested parties are encouraged to create an account and join: [] ** 2.  **SBCTC will sign a contract extension with Blackboard, with all existing favorable terms, to use ANGEL through June 30, 2014. ** 3.  **The eLearning Council’s “LMS Committee” will review and update LMS [|functional requirements] (Fall 2010). <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> ** 4.  **“Familiarity” sessions / webinars reviewing various LMS solutions will be scheduled between October 2010 and Summer 2011 to review and see demos of commercial and open source LMS solutions. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> a. Anyone can propose and organize an LMS “familiarity” session / webinar. Please work with Connie Broughton to get it on the WAOL advisory group agenda. b. These sessions / webinars will take place every two weeks at the beginning of the [|WashingtonOnline Advisory Group] meeting agenda (in [|Elluminate]) – all are welcome!
 * LMS “Next Steps” and Timeline** (draft approved by straw poll)

· Monday mornings @ 11:00am (pacific) – every other Monday – next meeting is Aug 23. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> c. Formal pilots may start Winter 2011 if/when colleges and universities want to learn significantly more about particular LMS solution(s). d. If after the familiarity sessions and pilots, enough colleges and universities choose to go with an open source solution, or a solution for which SBCTC currently has a contract, we can skip #5 (the RFP).

** 5.  **An RFP for a new LMS solution will be conducted from Fall 2011 through Summer 2012. a. System RFP committee (including ELC, ITC, IC, WACTC Technology, Student Disabilities Council, FACTC, University partners and other interested parties), chaired by SBCTC Director of eLearning and Open Education, selects the next LMS.

** 6.  **New contract for successful LMS solution is negotiated by SBCTC and signed Fall 2012.

** 7.  **Migrate to the new LMS solution: Fall 2012 through Summer 2014.

· <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">SBCTC runs WashingtonOnline ANGEL in parallel with new LMS o <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Colleges move to new LMS during a 2-year migration timeline · Multiple options under new LMS contract for community and technical colleges: o If your college is part of the SBCTC “shared LMS environment” § Features: · integration with SMS, Elluminate, Tegrity, streaming media, and all other SBCTC purchased tools and services · 24x7 help desk support for LMS · guaranteed best price · whether to “maintain $4 technology fee vs. free” will be determined by budgets and the costs of the new LMS solution · SBCTC staff support · shared faculty and admin professional development o If your college hosts your own instance of the selected LMS (i.e., you are completely separate from the SBCTC “shared LMS environment”) § Features: · your college is responsible for integration with SMS, Elluminate, Tegrity, streaming media, and all other SBCTC purchased tools and services · your college is responsible for help desk support · no SBCTC staff support other than sharing best practices in WAOL Advisory Group · shared faculty and admin professional development when possible · if there are additional costs for your separate instance (license and/or other costs), your college pays the additional costs · for example, let’s say we move to Blackboard – and Shoreline wants to host its own (and/or have Bb host for them) Bb instance. SBCTC would subsidize the cost of Shoreline’s Bb license … up to the level of the cost if Shoreline was in the SBCTC “shared LMS environment” … but no more. If there are additional costs, Shoreline pays those additional costs. There would still be one contract and one invoice per year to SBCTC. There may or not be a LMS technology fee to Shoreline – depends on budget availability and the cost of the new LMS solution. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Questions? Feel free to contact me anytime … and/or bring your questions / ideas to the next WAOL Advisory Group meeting. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Thanks to everyone who attended the LMS Summit! I look forward to working with you all as we move forward. <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Warmest regards, <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Cable <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Cable Green, PhD <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Director of eLearning & Open Education <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">SBCTC <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">360-704-4334 <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Cc: ELC, ITC, IC & WACTC Technology