Published: 2007.06.01

In November, 2006, the UCLA Faculty Committee on Educational Technology decided that UCLA should converge on Moodle as the single open-source platform for its common collaboration and learning environment (CCLE). The decision includes a commitment to remain engaged with the higher education community as it builds solutions for interoperability and cross-system collaboration. UCLA intends to continue as a Sakai Foundation member and, as capacity is available, to work with others in the Sakai, Moodle, and IMS communities who are interested in working on data, tool and language interoperability solutions.

The decision to converge on common solution is a response to faculty leadership in the articulation of a vision for improving the student learning and the faculty teaching and research collaboration experience. The selection process was accomplished through the significant effort of many staff and faculty who worked on the CCLE Technical and Functional Sponsor Groups and the CCLE Assessment Taskforce. This decision will now be carried through UCLA's IT governance process in order to build even broader campus consensus and to define a campus implementation strategy.

The decision to choose Moodle over Sakai as UCLA's convergence platform was based on many factors that, over time, led us to believe it to be a better match for UCLA's current needs. The decision to remain engaged with the Sakai community reflects our support for the Sakai vision and our desire to promote CMS interoperability solutions.

For further information please send your questions and comments to ccle@ucla.edu. Updates on the initiative progress, copies of reports, and an experimental CCLE site can be reached through the related links and are available at http://www.oit.ucla.edu/ccle. An experimental CCLE site is available at http://ccle.ucla.edu.