Some more reasons why Moodle is worth considering…such reasons shouldn’t be considered as a justification to embrace Moodle, but rather, a documentation of why some are adopting Moodle. Here are two reasons from NSTONEIT.com:
- Most schools do not know what they want!
- The Main Cost isn’t the hosting and technical expertise but the time for training and creation of content.
In regards to item #2, as Moodle users move forward to more serious implementation and it’s adopted by the organization as the tool to use, the effort required to make sure Moodle is able to work at the enterprise level DOES INCREASE dramatically. This point seems obvious but was driven home after listening–and viewing the slideshow–to Amanda Hefner, Northside ISD and Aldine ISD as they discussed their implementation. I’ve asked her for a copy of her presentation and hope to share the podcast in the week to come. Unfortunately, I left my notes (my laptop battery had expired about this time) at work.
More on this later…it’s an issue worth revisiting.
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Thanks for the reference. You make a good point about scaling up – do those scaling up costs not also apply for commercial VLEs?
Thanks for the reference. You make a good point about scaling up – do those scaling up costs not also apply for commercial VLEs?
I found your posting via Google Alerts. Talking about scaling: I work for the University of Zurich and we have been developing an open source LMS called OLAT for the last 10 years. Our latest release is fully scalable meaning that you can put various OLAT installations on multiple servers and offer true load balancing. I know that Moodle is very popular in the US but there are other open source LMS available out there that are equal or even better than Moodle depending on your use-case.Greetings from Switzerland.
I found your posting via Google Alerts. Talking about scaling: I work for the University of Zurich and we have been developing an open source LMS called OLAT for the last 10 years. Our latest release is fully scalable meaning that you can put various OLAT installations on multiple servers and offer true load balancing. I know that Moodle is very popular in the US but there are other open source LMS available out there that are equal or even better than Moodle depending on your use-case.Greetings from Switzerland.