It's been a while since I wrote last on this weblog, so I have a lot of catching up to do... I will start off with some news on Virtual Learning Environments (VLE's, CMS's, LMS's whatever).
At Utrecht University a committee has spent a while considering the options for one VLE for the whole of Utrecht University. A number of options where considered but the final decision was: not now, we will wait two more years!

I believe, taking into account the circumstances, this to be a wise
decision. WebCT and Blackboard have not got Omni on offer yet (more about that later), Sakai is not grown up enough yet to deploy in on such a large scale and as a critical tool, the Service Oriented Architecture approach still needs some refining and Sharepoint just isn't what we need at the moment (is Sharepoint really a VLE anyway?)

More important still in my opinion are the arguments referring to our own organisation. How on earth do you plan to support a central VLE without a central support department. If there is one thing I have learnt in the past is that encouraging the use of ICT in education requires encouragement and especially a reliable system with reliable support.

(This is my quick and dirty interpretation of the report.)
The report is available in Dutch here.
Or read the interview (in Dutch) with Wilfred Rubens on this matter here