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Thank you very much for a number of helpful replies to my call for
information. This summarises my navigation of HEI websites followed by
unstructured interviews with six staff of six different institutions.
Most (63%) of the 38 HEI in the Russell and 1994 (R4) groups are still
using centrally one of the VLE products of one main vendor. However,
there is a growing number of institutions who have migrated to Open
Source (OS) alternatives, and they seem happy with the outcome. The
migration process is a major project that can take two years, but the
costs associated are quickly offset by the savings in licence fees. More
importantly, OS allows VLE integration with a range of ad-hoc systems
and freedom from vendor lock-in. The HEI community is developing a
range of cutting-edge application plug-in and tools to integrate other
systems with either Moodle or Sakai. While Moodle remains the most
popular (23%) R4 OS option, the Sakai Collaboration and Learning
Environment is now also taking off in the UK with a group of four
(10.5%) R4 HEI adopting it centrally. These include two of the very top
ranking universities in the UK.
Alec
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Alejandro Chiner, Service Innovation Officer, University of Warwick
Library, Research & Innovation Unit,
Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +(44/0) 24 765
23251, Fax: +(44/0) 24 765 24211,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chiner Arias, Alejandro
Sent: 17 April 2008 10:58
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Subject: changes of VLE
Hi
Apologies for cross-posting.
I am interested in large VLE implementations and the different
functionality achieved by Blackboard, Moodle, or other Open Source, or
indeed in-house, implementations in universities, or largish HEI. In
particular I am interested in those institutions who have moved from one
to another recently. If you can spare the time to have a telephone
chat, please email me off the list, indicating your most convenient
time.
Many thanks.
Alec
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Alejandro Chiner, Service Innovation Officer, University of Warwick
Library, Research & Innovation Unit,
Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Tel: +(44/0) 24 765
23251, Fax: +(44/0) 24 765 24211,
[log in to unmask] http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/riu
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