Just yesterday at ULearn 2008 (the largest ICT in Education conference in NZ) I launched (in the plenary session) a Managed Learning Environment initiative for NZ schools (and tertiary sort of). This work will design and promote (read invest in the interoperability to see vendors develop) an “educationally relevant, open, modular, standards-based, sustainable approach to OLE development and use for New Zealand schools.”
Two key aspects (from within the dozens of modules and services) are the LMS (where our thinking is similar to that on http://ocwblog.org/2008/10/02/openshare-for-moodle-released/) and the content lifecycle. With Moodle a high contender of one of our LMS (we will select 2-4) Open Share is of interest, but so is eXe. Make contact (paul.seiler@minedu.govt.nz) if you wish to speak further/see if there are areas of work we have in common.