Comments on: Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:34:00 +0000

Backboard price is per FTE (faculty/staff). Not per student.

By: Anjani Kumar Shukla

Anjani Kumar Shukla — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 06:54:02 +0000

You have highlighted the features and advantages of most of the LMS’es mentioned here correctly.
The surprising part is that none of us have mentioned the ability (or ease) of integrating these LMS’es with applications that enhance the productivity and satisfaction of the users. Today most of the LMS’es are supporting “Offline” functionality as well and hence the “Offline Content Players” are coming in picture.
One such tried and tested Offline Player comes from Harbinger group which can be seamlessly integrated with any LMS which is SCROM/AICC compliant and as it comes from India, it is almost free (compared to the cost of most of the LMS’es). You can visit http://www.harbingergroup.com for more details.

By: Michael Feldstein

Michael Feldstein — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:10:05 +0000

Inigral had an IMS LIS integration for their Schools on Facebook product at one point, although I’m not sure what the current status is. The initial efforts to test compatibility were focused on SIS-to-LMS, since that is the current most common use case by far. But there is a strong interest in integrating with all sorts of applications that could be used by teachers and students, including but not limited to social networking applications.

By: Gustavo Torreti

Gustavo Torreti — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:24:34 +0000

Thank you for your previous answer, Mike.

Even though the Alliance was recently made at IMS (1), I find quite peculiar that no social networking integrations appeared (nor were mentioned) as a “indirect” learning enviroment…

Even if LMS providers build their own solutions to student/tutors/faculty chatting and exchanging ideas, facebook, twitter and other social networks will still take a nice ammount of time of their lifes. And that could be a nice opportunity to use towards learning (imho).

How do social networking should relate to LMS Systems to you?
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References:
1 – http://www.imsglobal.org/lis/alliance.html

By: Michael Feldstein

Michael Feldstein — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:46:18 +0000

Good question, Gustavo. There is a standard called the IMS Learning Information Services which is designed for this purpose. It was just released in Public Draft. So far Moodle supports IMS LIS—but only for Moodlerooms customers—and Blackboard does not support it. Both platforms have point-to-point integrations with various SIS vendors to varying degrees. Support for IMS LIS is the thing that LMS adopters should be looking for.

By: Gustavo Torreti

Gustavo Torreti — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:34:46 +0000

Congratulations on the post.

Is there any publications concerning ERP integration? Although Learning and content management are critically important, making sure the LMS information is not isolated there is very important for the University/School, and it is not mentioned in the study nor in Bb’s response to the study (http://oscmoodlereport.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/ncccs-and-blackboard-report-october-2009.pdf).

By: nlw0716 (Niki)

nlw0716 (Niki) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:40:04 +0000

Bb vs Moodle North Carolina Community College Assessment: http://tinyurl.com/kmykjt

By: Michael Feldstein

Michael Feldstein — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:02:43 +0000

It’s hard to know; Blackboard doesn’t publish a price list. I have heard anything from $10USD to $25USD/user/year, depending on which modules you license, whether you host yourself or have them host it for you, etc.

By: 2t

2t — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:55:24 +0000

How much does Blackboard education cost?

By: AbdulrahmanAlzahrani

AbdulrahmanAlzahrani — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:48:36 +0000

First of all, we cannot neglect the fact that Moodle is a free online source. Also, we know that even though that Blackboard is an expensive online source, they have 24/7 technical support, which Moodle doesn’t have. However, each one of these sources has its won features either good or bad. For small universities and colleges, Moodle is a great source to be used for their online courses which saves them a lot of money. In the other hand, large universities that have thousands of users, need 24/7 technical support especially in the last weeks of each semester which the use of these sources just goes up highly. To sum up, both Blackboard and Moodle, have great features that play an important role in the development of the elearning process.