David Scotson

I was pleasantly surprised to see Moodle mentioned on Mark Shuttleworth's blog even though it was only really in the context of praising LAMS

The post that mentioned Moodle was:

• LAMS

and the follow up was interesting too, for those interested in the bigger picture of e-learning:

• Amazing two day workshop on programming and education

For those that aren't aware, Shuttleworth is the founder/funder of Ubuntu the hottest new Linux distribution on the block, which has an education offshoot, called Edubuntu, focused on providing both server and client OS's for use in K-12 education across the globe (Moodle comes included, natch).

Paparazzi does this on Mac OS X, for free (and everyone knows web pages look better on the Mac ).

While I want to like Sakai, I too am worried about it playing into the hands of Open Source critics and unfairly overshadowing Moodle's mindshare in certain markets.

Though at the end of the day I feel it's just a bit too 'enterprisey' and as long as they keep actively selling it on that point, it can't cause too many problems.

You've left the name of the proprietary option in one of your chart boxes accidentally (I assume). I think an administrator could edit it out for you if you asked them to.

I think Nuvvo beat them to the punch with the whole "Web 2.0" thing (as long as you think AJAXy interface + copying 37 signal's 'look' = Web 2.0).

Personally I like some of the other ideas that make up the so-called Web 2.0 and think that tools such as Elgg might be a better posterchild for the next generation of e-learning on the web.