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I’ve been surveying Learning Management Systems (LMSs) over the last couple of days for a work project. The LMSs that I’ve been looking at must be Open Source and preferably written in PHP.

It looks like they are pretty similar in most ways – though I am not an educator, so it’s difficult for me to gauge systems on the lesson planning front.

I’ve read some really long, verbose, blog banter back and forth between users of Moodle and Sakai. Most of that got really academic and a lot of that was pointless brand-bashing.   My criteria is pretty simple: ease of installation and deployment, stability, extendability and customization. This install won’t be for a TRULY academic implementation but more of a internal training tool for an organization.

So what Open Source LMS would work best for us? (more…)