No innovation is free but sometimes a significant purchase price will
stop possible innovation in its tracks.
Significant purchase price means that a case has to be made to and
understood by management.
Open source means that experimentation can be teacher-led in the hope
that one day management will catch up or not as the case may be. A lot
of progress is possible using open source products like Moodle at very
minimal cost and the individual enthusiasm of a few.
The pros and cons of teacher-led vs. management-led is a interesting
theme. What is certain is that for the innovation to take root it needs
to be owned by both management and teachers. Which end you start at may
be irrelevant.
I am now less sure about the benefits of VLE's in mainstream FE than I
was 5 years ago. Maybe the case for VLE still hasn't fully been made???
Or maybe I'm going backwards?
Peter Trethewey
Head of ILT/e-learning
Bromley College
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Subject: Re: [VLES] MOODLE with LAMS FREE
'Free' refers to liberty NOT price - as in free speech. It is patently
obvious that Moodle is not free of cost.
See
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
Patrick Hickey
ILT Co-ordinator, ext 385
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