E-Health Insider reports that the NHS 'University' has cancelled its procurement of a 'virtual campus'. The E-Health Insider article states:
“The virtual campus was intended to form the cornerstone of the NHSU, providing learners and tutors with access to information and resources. NHSU was also planning to use the virtual campus as its spine for management, teaching, research, learner administration and support purposes.”
The focus, apparently, is now on the development of a learning management system. IBM and LogicaCMG had been shortlisted to deliver the project so let's hope they didn't invest too much in preparing their bids. Let's also hope that the recent demise of the UKeU isn't having a detrimental effect on such risk taking development or we're all going to be sentenced to a few proprietary vendors coming to dominate the market, which can't be good for anyone. If so, we had better hope that the open source movement provides the necessary counter balance. To prepare for this counter balance, as today's OLDaily suggests, you could do worse than read the International Open Source Network (IOSN) primer Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) from schools to universities.
