EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 3 (July–September 2008) Moving to Moodle: Reflections Two Years Later Adopting an open source learning management system combined. . Given these objectives and the universitys in-house experience in developing learning technologies, RRU decided to join the open source movement. . Choosing Moodle meant joining the open source community. The Metro staff started developing customized features and worked with the IT staff to install and test Moodle. . Consider the cost and resources to run two learning management systems and decide the best transition strategies. Balance time to customize an open source program with time to implement it. .

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6C Learning Blog: The new RELOAD has arrived I am going to try this new open source software. Thanx Bert!

I've recently become a fan of Open Source Living , a site that rounds up the best of the many and varied OS apps that are out there. an article extolling its virtues this week. Moodle is of course THE open source e-learning item of the moment*1. zeitgeist early, but I may have been late to the party. Still, OS is Steve's business , so he should know quicker than most... open source. section under content management, after blogging , but ahead of illustrious app categories such as forums and wikis. .

blog about Free Stuff in a Commercial World , which discussed the need to understand the business model that was behind the free tools. It's important to note that free tools fit into two broad camps: Closed source, but free to use - eg. Jing Open source - eg. Moodle et al Tools that fit into either of those two groups can also be in two other groups: Solid business model or an active development community No. note these are my current opinions only - I'm prepared to have them changed!) Closed source Open source Solid business model or. . It's not rocket science, just a matter of undertaking a process due diligence before you make your long term choices. Original post from Learning Conversations .

Mark Surman got me focussed on Open Educational Resources (OER) again with his great post on the Cape Town Declaration. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is document that will be posted on the WWW in the beginning of 2008 and which builds upon other Open Education evolutions such as Free & Open Source Software Portal from Unesco who put their ideas into open education from as early as 1984 onwards.

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