A good point Chris and I think we are all in favour of the people who will use the system having a say in thechoice of VLE.
Your other pointis also very relevant, if the bean counters have not paid for something they have little incentive to get people to use it. In order to break down resistance you will need training (not for all I grant you, but many people need to be taught how to use their video). Of course you could pay for training, even in house training costs money, but that means that you have taken what is a free product and made it cost money. No bean counter is going to thank you for doing that.
Sounds like there is an opening for a product which does not cost the earth but offers all the support and training you require,something most VLE suppliers never did.
Anyone know of one?
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Of CHRIS JEFFRIES
Sent: 18 October 2005 12:31
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Subject: Re: [VLES] Open Source VLEs: statistics>>
We've got a registered Moodle installation, but we're not using it in
practice (yet).
You are much less likely to install and then not use something that has been
paid for.
It's one of the BEST things about free software (I mean software with no up
front licence/purchase cost) that it can be properly evaluated by the people
who will use it and not by bean counters. And yes, of course total cost of
ownership is not zero or anything like, but at least the important people
can get there hands on something early on in the decision making process
before its all set in stone.
Miles Berry writes:
> According to the BB/WebCT press release: "Combined company will have
> more than 3,700 clients."
> There are currently over 6400 /registered/ moodle sites - see
> http://moodle.org/sites/
>
> OK, we're not comparing like with like here, as a BB installation is
> typically campus wide, whereas most Moodle sites are schools, colleges
> or departments, but that said, I wonder if anyone would care to predict
> which of these will have the higher proportional increase over the next
> 12 months?
>
> Miles.
>
> niki lambropoulos wrote:
>> anybody has statistics on the use of VLEs in the
>> world?
>> especially moodle?
>>
>> many thanX
>> niki
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