Tag Archives: Moodle

Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for ANGEL

By Michael Feldstein | Published: April 25, 2009
This is another one I’ve been meaning to post for some time. Last year, I wrote a post called Bad News for Blackboard, Good News for Moodle that talked about changes in LMS market share among American community colleges according to a survey done by the Instructional Technology Council. The headline number was that Blackboard’s market [...]
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Moodlerooms Doing Great Standards-Based Integration Work

By Michael Feldstein | Published: April 25, 2009
I meant to get this up a while ago. Moodlerooms has been on a tear lately. First, they submitted a patch to Moodle to enhance integration with external systems for enrollment purposes. This isn’t standards-based integration in itself, but I’m told it aids with integration of things like LDAP and LIS. Next, they integrated Moodle [...]
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Social Constructivists and eLearning

By Jim Farmer | Published: August 7, 2008
This is a guest post by Jim Farmer On July 15th Luke Fernandez, Weber State University and frequent Sakai contributor, posted “Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community” on Academic Commons. Broadly interpreting his post about attending the San Francisco MoodleMoot US 2008, he identified two issues: (1) How does the [...]
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Moodle Developer Martin Dougiamas Honored at OSCON 2008

By Jim Farmer | Published: August 2, 2008
This is a guest post by Jim Farmer. Martin Dougiamas was named Best Education Enabler at last week’s OSCON (Open Source Conference) 2008 in Portland. The Google-O’Reilly Open Source award was made for his contribution to Moodle, an open source learning system. This is the first year anyone from education was nominated for the annual awards. Other [...]
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SpikeSource Supporting Moodle on the Microsoft Stack

By Michael Feldstein | Published: April 22, 2008
Jim Farmer has an interesting guest post over at Seb’s blog about SpikeSource supporting Moodle on Windows/IIS. Both the creation of supported softwares stack for higher education and the mixture of proprietary and open source software in at least some of those stacks strike me as natural steps. I expect that we’ll see more of [...]
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