On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Hannah Hough wrote:
> I carried out some research on the use of VLEs for the support of
> Information Literacy (library skills) and discussed the
> limitations and advantages of using VLEs to support this subject. Only a
> few institutions used in-house VLEs but in many cases
> this was because they found that commercial VLEs were too restrictive
> and any developments required were very expensive to
> request.
> In-house VLEs may not have ALL the complex functionality of commercial
> VLEs but often the functionality suits the home
> institution and the only reason that they cannot fully compete with
> packages such as Blackboard and WebCT is that they have
> restricted funding. This has been a key problem with the Nathan
> Bodington software that was developed here in Leeds, The team is
> committed to providing a great solution to the demands of the
> institution but funding is holding the developments back.
>
> Hannah Hough
> University of Leeds
>
>
I have been developing Bodington for a couple of months now and I must
agree that funding is a big issue - there are heaps and heaps of things
that could be done with Bodington but theres only a handful of us
working on the system and things take time.
Indeed - if half of those institutions who are developing their own
VLE's would instead jump on the Bodington bandwaggon then we'd all have
the system we desire!
Hint hint!
And we'd all be meeting up in Inverness tomorrow (theres a developers
meeting hosted by UHI).
Adam marshall (Bod Dev Oxford)
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