Comments on: Academic blogging and Moodle: Two educational technology talks http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/86 JP's work on the new internet, business, and society. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:13:49 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jpallen http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/86/comment-page-1#comment-54 jpallen Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:03:02 +0000 http://www.jpedia.org/wp/?p=86#comment-54 Thanks Jacques. Moodle version 2 is supposed to be out this summer. Maybe that will be enough to send USF over the edge. Thanks Jacques. Moodle version 2 is supposed to be out this summer. Maybe that will be enough to send USF over the edge.

]]> By: Jacques http://www.jpedia.org/wp/archives/86/comment-page-1#comment-52 Jacques Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:10:57 +0000 http://www.jpedia.org/wp/?p=86#comment-52 JP, Adoption of Open Source products is always taken too carefully by organizations, since, I believe, normally they demand from these kind of products a lot more than what is asked from a proprietary product. It is true that sometimes to know which of the Open Source products will be the one that will have a certain continuity in the market is pretty difficult, but as can happen with proprietary ones, specially if Microsoft is not behind any of them. However, in the market of e-learning platforms it is shocking that any organization is still "considering Moodle as an alternative" and still paying for WebCTs or Blackboards. Just amazing. Why should anyone pay for something that can be done a lot better for free and in an Open Source environment with an absolutely stable and trusted product? Unbelievable. In Las Palmas we have been using Moodle for about 6-7 years now. Absolutely no drawbacks. Comfortable, easy, fast. We are using it at every single teaching level (pregrad, PhD, masters, specialization courses). Best is that when you get in touch with others using it around the globe, the experience is exactly the same: wonderful. Do convince USF to move to Moodle. Just it may be too late. I would suppose something new is about to come out, Moodle just just been around for too long :-) and is too good. JP,

Adoption of Open Source products is always taken too carefully by organizations, since, I believe, normally they demand from these kind of products a lot more than what is asked from a proprietary product. It is true that sometimes to know which of the Open Source products will be the one that will have a certain continuity in the market is pretty difficult, but as can happen with proprietary ones, specially if Microsoft is not behind any of them.

However, in the market of e-learning platforms it is shocking that any organization is still “considering Moodle as an alternative” and still paying for WebCTs or Blackboards. Just amazing. Why should anyone pay for something that can be done a lot better for free and in an Open Source environment with an absolutely stable and trusted product? Unbelievable.

In Las Palmas we have been using Moodle for about 6-7 years now. Absolutely no drawbacks. Comfortable, easy, fast. We are using it at every single teaching level (pregrad, PhD, masters, specialization courses). Best is that when you get in touch with others using it around the globe, the experience is exactly the same: wonderful.

Do convince USF to move to Moodle. Just it may be too late. I would suppose something new is about to come out, Moodle just just been around for too long :-) and is too good.

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