Don't take me wrong, I think Moodle is great and I LOVE moodle! However, I'm still hearing from some of our faculty members and EDUCAUSE conference attendees comments like:
"Why can't Moodle do bla bla bla? This is really easy to do in XXX LMS..."
"You should try out Desire2Learn, it has got these xxx features that ...."
Moodle is great! But I think if we (the moodle community) could humble ourselves to listen to our users more and to learn from other great/better features in other LMS, that would really make us even stronger. Agree? I have some experience with Blackboard and WebCT, and recently have been trying out Desire2Learn (try it out here) and Sakai using my non-working time. I don't think I'm the best person to compare all these LMS and there are already sites that research this as commercial product (see here, wow over 70+ LMS!). But still, I think this would be a killer topic to talk about, after all, we all want to see our beloved Moodle grow even stronger! Agree? Comments or thoughts?
The key is sincere and objective comparison.
We could compare some of these mainstream LMS by using these criteria:
- Features
- Accessibility
- Scalability and performance
- Usability (probably would be covered in more depth in the other panel)
- Trend and future development
- Other criteria (to be added later)
Wen