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Summary of IU and LSU Site Visits
"Our recent site visits to Indiana University and Louisiana State University revealed much about the nature of Sakai and Moodle as learning management systems (LMSs), as well as strategies for implementing open source software at a major institution of higher education. "
Who Is Using Sakai & Moodle
"Up till now, I've always felt publicly available information about who is using Sakai has been inaccurate, erring on the side of undercounting, while Moodle's published usage statistics have always seemed unbelievably high and in need of a lot of interpretation. "
Sakai, Blackboard and Moodle session at EDUCAUSE
"The interest in the session shows that a large proportion of universities are thinking about what system will best meet their needs."
How course management systems impact teaching
Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today’s large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies.
Blackboard’s Response to Open Source: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
"As I noted recently, the University of North Carolina (a Blackboard customer) reported highly favorable results of their pilot study of Sakai, with an outcome of further investigation into Sakai as a full replacement of Blackboard as their primary LMS. It turns out that this was following on the heels of a similar study done by the North Carolina Community College system favorably comparing Moodle to Blackboard."
The State of the LMS: An Institutional Perspective
This is not one of those predict-the-demise or predict-the-next-flux-capacitor presentations, though. It’s just an excellent, down-to-earth institutional view of how LMS adoption is going in the real world and what the challenges are, especially for large university consortia.
Respondus LockDown Browser for Moodle
Once the administrator has installed the "Moodle module for Respondus LockDown Browser," instructors will see additional security settings for the quiz tool, which allows the locked browser requirement to be turned on or off for quizzes. If the instructor enables the setting for a quiz, students are prevented from accessing the quiz with a standard browser – they must use Respondus LockDown Browser.
Microsoft Integrates Live@edu with Moodle, Launches Education Labs
Through a new plugin developed by Microsoft and released today, Moodle users will be able to take direct advantage of Live@edu features, including calendaring, search, e-mail, shared workspaces, storage, and instant messaging.
LMS Evaluation Committee - Final 2009 Report and Recommendation
Recommends, on the basis of that evaluation, that the University adopt Moodle as its sole Learning Management System.
Five ways to use your VLE / LP to support homework
Well, it might not make you the most popular teacher, but if used well it can support colleagues and students with managing, tracking and even handing in homework. So, without much of a fanfare, and based purely on my thoughts after this morning here are Five Ways to use your VLE or Learning Platform to support homework.
Students Adore Moodle
While the LMS could support those features, its developers were slow in bringing them to life. So Dougiamas said: "Well, to meet these learners' needs, I'm going to have to do it myself."
Blackboard Buys Another Rival, to Customers' Dismay
“We will definitely be looking” to switch to other software, he said, adding that he planned to start running a test server with Sakai and Moodle. “I’m not going to be caught with my pants down and believe everything they say.”
Is Blackboard Losing Clients?
I thought it would be interesting to try to compile a list of schools/consortia/orgs that have switched away from either Blackboard or WebCT to any of the other alternatives, or vice versa.
Moodle Backend Admin Description
As requested, here is a basic description of the main system
administration duties for Moodle, or indeed for any LMS, but
especially an open source one.
Google Collaborates on Moodle Integration
Through the integration, users loaded into Moodle will be automatically loaded into Google Apps Education Edition, "providing users with Web-based e-mail, document authoring, spreadsheets, presentations and sites, all integrated with their online learning platform," explained Moodlerooms' West Coast Managing Director Michael Penney.
Moodle and Open Source Security
The very openness of open source development means that as soon as the project community becomes aware of an exploit, the developer team swiftly springs into action to implement a patch, but more often the exploits are reported directly to the developers who will tend to fix this stuff in private, and then publish the update or patch.
Moodle Gets SCORM Improvements, Security Fixes
New versions of Moodle have been released, bringing the most recent stable build to 1.9.3. The latest round of updates includes a number of bug fixes and security enhancements, as well as improvements to the SCORM module.
Weber State 2008 Summer LMS Pilots
Report on Weber State 2008 Summer LMS Pilots; teaching and learning in Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai and Mash-ups
Iowa State To Develop Moodle-Blackboard Integration Software
Iowa State University and Blackboard have partnered to develop technologies that will allow Blackboard's learning environment to integrate with the open-source Moodle learning management system. Iowa State will lead the development effort, with Blackboard providing support.
Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives
Blackboard has become the Microsoft of higher-education technology, say many campus-technology officials, and they don't mean the comparison as a compliment. To them the company is not only big but also pushy, and many of them love to hate it.
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