Southern New Hampshire University, seeing an opening in the market for a learning management system designed around competency-based education, is spinning off the custom-made system it built to support College for America.
Before College for America launched in January 2013, the university considered building a platform to support the competency-based education subsidiary on top of the learning management system used on campus, Blackboard Learn. The university instead picked Canvas, created by Instructure, but after only a couple of months, "we decided we needed to build our own," said Paul J. LeBlanc, president of the university.
For most colleges and universities, any one of the major learning management systems on the market will likely meet their requirements for posting course content and engaging with students outside the classroom. But for institutions that don't tie academic progress to the course or the credit hour -- or have an unconventional method of delivering education -- those same systems may be restrictive.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/29/college-america-spins-its-custom-made-learning-management-system