Dear All,
I wonder if people could assist me with a very short set of questions
re their current VLE and in particular their VLE licence. This is some
background research for a chapter of a forthcoming book on "open
courseware" and any replies will be treated entirely in confidence, and
anonymised if I use any of the data.
In short if you could reply to the following (off-list) that would be
really useful,
With thanks,
Stuart
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ALL questions are optional!
1. Name:
2. Affiliation:
3. Position:
4. VLE used at your institution:
5. Is your licence based on number of FTEs (e.g. students and staff)?
If NO - how else is it calculated (if appropriate)?
If YES please give further details:
6. If you wish to expand the number of FTEs using your VLE would this
require a renegotiation of the licence?
Please give further details:
7. Is it easy for you to make content within your VLE available to
people *not* in your institution (e.g. people at other Universities,
the public etc.)?
8. Would opening the VLE up in such a way require a renegotiation of
the licence?
Please give details:
9. Do you often make course content available to everyone *within* your
institution (e.g. to all students), or is it generally limited to only
those students who have elected to take that module?
If you do not is this a policy decision, and/or for technical reasons?
Any other comments would be gratefully received. In particular I am
focusing on whether VLEs (open source or commercial) place barriers in
the way of sharing content across courses, and with the outside world;
and if so whether this is for reasons of internal policy, or whether
the authentication/authorisation systems built into the VLE make this
difficult, or whether it is financially prohibitive due to licensing
issues.
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Dr Stuart D Lee, (Acting) Director of the Computing Services, and
Member of the English Faculty, Oxford University Computing Services,
13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN
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