“The driving force behind this initiative was not dissatisfaction with the current course management systems … The driving force was the escalating cost of supporting two CMS platforms in a time of severe budget constraints.”
UW System completed negotiations last week with Desire2Learn, a Canadian company whose product will replace WebCT and Blackboard as the campuses’ common e-Learning system. The selection of the Desire2Learn platform comes after a year-long process aimed at procuring a single product or suite of products that meet the UW’s evolving web-based learning needs.