I'm not aware of any rumour but it's worth
remembering the scale and complexity of the OU's existing enterprise systems.
Integrating any system with that is going to be a challenge.
Best wishes
Tristram
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I wonder if anyone at the OU would like to comment on the rumours I
heard today from a senior colleague who reported that the OU had 19 people
working on Moodle, that it was considered unfit for purpose and they were
having to re-write huge chunks of the code to make it do what they wanted - I
was surprised!
Malcolm
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Tim
When we
looked at the difference it was the sheer cost that we tried to
justify, given Moodle works from a quick download
and install. Plus the
political issues at the time surrounding
Blackboard's patent claims put us
off even more.
The other
benefit is that Moodle is so easily customisable. I'd love to see
all of education move to Open Source where
possible on the desktops -
especially ubuntu.
James
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If you are
looking to upgrade to the enterprise version of blackboard where
does the comparison with moodle fit in? Surely you
should be looking at the
additional features that blacboard enterprise
offers and justifying those.
I am
confused
Tim
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Hi all,
Has anyone
made a comparison between the above 2 VLE systems?
We currently
use Blackboard basic and need to justify upgrading to
Blackboard
I'd
appreciate any thoughts/research from other users.
Thanks from
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