One needs to be careful about the Oxford report, I certainly have two major
problems with it:
Firstly (and most importantly) when you read the reasons for choosing
Bodington it does not mention learning as one of the reasons for selecting
Bodington against any other VLE. Now, there may have been sound educational
reasons why Bodington was chosen, but they are not mentioned on the report
which focuses on a number of technical issues (scalability, fine access
control etc.).
Secondly, its argument for the "free lunch" is falacious on two counts.
Actually, we are all paying for it (well those in institutions especially,
but tax payers generally) through the top slice on funding council budgets
and through the generous funding from JISC etc. It is also an unrepeatable
offer as no one is going to pay for other institutions to repeat what has
been demonstrated.
However, I did enjoy it - so long as I thought that Stuart had written it
somewhat tongue in cheek.
regards
Tom Franklin
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From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Mark Power
Sent: 13 July 2005 09:35
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Subject: Re: [VLES] VLE - A case for Moodle
It's not Moodle but there is a nice report written by the people at Oxford
called 'Finally a free lunch: the benefits of an open source VLE/LMS'. This
looks at their implentation of another Open Source VLE - Bodington, so might
be of use to you as the general issues surrounding the use of OS VLEs that
the report covers will no doubt apply equally to Moodle. You may also want
to take other systems into consideration.
The report can be found at:
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/vle/index.xml.ID=news
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