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See this link for more details.
Interesting article, and the site looks very useful on a brief inspection (can't recall if this site's been highlighted here before, it's all becoming a bit of a blur. (Calls of "Nurse, the screens").
They're looking for case studies from those who have migrated to open source.
Ray
I can commend the site, partly for its case studies, but mainly for the wide range of teaching/learning materials that are free to download - I found a whole cd rom's worth of material from one project to use in A level physics teaching! Search by subject!
The materials are primarily aimed at school teaching and Further education in the UK (16+ to adult); many are used as exemplars in the Ferl practitioner's program, for training teachers, support staff, technicians and vle developers in the UK FE sector.
Oh, and they pay for good quality materials and case studies (£50 or so).
Someone put a link to moodle on it 18 months ago!
I'm doing an LSDA Q project showing how material (originally written for a WebCT) pilot can be effectively incorporated into a VLE. Such is the proliferation of acronyms and organisations in the UK, it may or may not have something to do with Ferl and Becta... and may or may not end on this site in the summer!
Andy D
Supposed to be on holiday but can't keep away from my e-mail!
Prof V.Nagarajan
I am excited to find that my
http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0310&L=deos-l&D=0&F=P&P=5511&F=
heads off the blog thread you kindly report (
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Recently I only praise Moodle in Japanese.
Prof. Tim Takemoto
as it is said
here
and here @XPLANA
there are also
CHEF, Fle3 and LON-CAPA VLE, competent to moodle
* CHEF is written in java,
* Fle3 - python - more like collaboration tool (not much to do for a teacher
* LON-CAPA - perl (and some python) - very robust but also comprehensive (CAPA since 1992, LON-CAPA since 1998). It has lots of science lessons and quizes, worth a look ;)
But they state: Moodle is pedagogically the best .
a good comparison of features grid http://www.edutools.info/course/compare/compare.jsp?product=227,182,74,169
ATutor (PHP) is also kind of competitor, just it deals more with content creation.
I still think Moodle is optimal, because it has nearly all (most important) features of other VLE's, but still is quite lightweight, as LON-CAPA from it's 8MB gz.tar produced more than 100MB of scripts and so on (anyway, hardware is cheap..).
