Good point Roger. Sometimes these problems often have pedagogical,
rather than technical solutions.
Barry Spencer, Geoff Rebbeck, Alan Staley, etc. have all been focussing
on the pedagogy of VLEs for a while now, demonstrating effective
e-Learning is 'design' and activity driven (all three will be
facilitating workshops at the London Moodle event).
Whilst content and information can be highly motivating for learners,
learning is often best demonstrated, and most enjoyable, when using
communication tools. Indeed, the best 'course design' for e-learning
I've witnessed often has no 'content' (ppt; pdf; etc.). Activities
included learners tasked to collect, develop, repurpose, utilise their
own resources to complete an assignment - the 'content' (which can be
kept in a student/course repository) can then be assessed/evaluated for
fitness of purpose, etc.
Having said that, a VLE migration would need careful handling as any
tutor would be appalled at the prospect of losing their work. I know
that the Open Learning Partnership developed a system for migrating
WebCT content to Moodle successfully.
Best wishes
Philip
Philip Butler, Senior Curriculum Adviser
JISC RSC for London
ULCC, 20 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1DZ
Tel: 020 7692 1643 (Office)
0787 962 0421 (Mobile)
www.rsc-london.ac.uk
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From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Roger Emery
Sent: 17 February 2006 15:24
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Subject: Re: Transition from Blackboard to Moodle
If it is possible to export Bb as a SCORM course then Moodle will import
SCORM courses. I have sucessfully tried exporting from a course as SCORM
from Learnwise and it imported fine into Moodle as SCORM...except this
is only the content and not all the forums, or collaboration data or
quizzess or anything bespoke to the system not SCORM compliant. It will
also leave you with a course that is kind of stand alone object in that
you won't be able to insert moodle activities into it.
What may also be worth considering is what are you actually trying to
migrate? and why are you trying to migrate it?
Isn't this an opportunity to take a look at what you have and how you
may be constrained by your current system and how the IT may have
dictated what you have done? Then look at how you want to deliver the
course/unit/module to fit your teaching and learning requirement and see
if the system can help to enable your *online learning*?
If it is just a case of moving what I would call *online reading*
(ppts, docs etc) from one content delivery system to another then what
is the point? (other than the cost saving of the licence fee)
I would see the inability to move courses en-mass from one system to
another as an opportunity for padagogic improvement, not a technical
headache.
Roger
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