This might be more suited to the comparisons and advocacy forum but I thought I'd post here since it's just raising the issue in general, gauging opinion, and I've just posted on the Moodle and SN thread, which is sort of connected. I spent a couple of days at BETT ( a UK educational trade fair) and did a whistlestop tour of some commercial LMS from a secondary school point of view. I'm also interested, for my own personal development, in how other Open Source LMS(VLEs) compare pedagogically with Moodle - ie, what they do better, what Moodle does better and what both do differently and how we could learn from other commercial and Open Source products in order to improve Moodle. Does anyone know of any in depth research on this? I've seen the odd "Moodle v Blackboard" type paper or blog post on ,say Moodle v Edmodo but nothing more. Have I missed anything? Would there be any merit in my doing some research on this? (Kind of objective "compare and contrast" Moodle with the best known other products) Personal research, in my own time, obviously, as I have no plans to go back off to college and write a Phd
But I was fascinated when I questioned other providers at BETT at how they saw things different from (and similar to) Moodle, so I just wondered if it might be useful? From my point of view, it would also mean I could speak with authority about why Moodle is BEST (because I had studied the others) rather than just assuming it is because everyone I know uses it!