LC in Education

[Judy Perry]

Colin,

Moodle is gaining traction in education because it is FOSS, that is, free, 
whereas Blackboard is hugely expensive and doesn't tend to play well with 
any browser made outside of Redmond.  Blackboard also has exhibited 
predatory patent practices and successfully locked some similar Canadian 
product out of the US market (I think it was maybe Desire2Learn?).

Blackboard is evil and therefore, in my eye, anything free that's a decent 
alternative gets my vote.  As I tell my students, it may well suck but 
even then it sucks for free, unlike Blackboard, which my campus insists 
upon licensing despite the fact that the state that funds us is nearly 
bankrupt and not so long ago paid its contractors in IOUs.

Judy

> Although I don't fully understand why, Moodle is huge in education, and you should get to grips with it no matter what.