LC in Education

[Terry Judd]

Hi Judy - the good thing about Blackboard occasionally being unreliable is
that people are more likely to be somewhat forgiving when (inevitably) one
of the new systems we are developing springs a problem. We can usually put
things right pretty quickly and only a few hundred users at most will
experience any problems. When Blackboard goes AWOL everybody suffers.

OK, enough Blackboard bagging for now. Really, it's pretty good at doing
what it does.

Terry...


On 04/05/2011 02:58 PM, "Judy Perry" <jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu> wrote:

> Terry,
> 
> It's funny that you should mention Blackboard being awful.  It really IS
> gawdawful!  I happened to be in my class early one day and several
> students were trying to access my Moodle setup (on server space I rent
> from Mark and paid him to install while I maintain) and they reported it
> was down.  I messaged Mark, he checked it and said it came up fine for
> him, then my students all reported it worked for them as well (signalling
> a network error on our end), and then one of them remarked that my Moodle
> site was far more reliable than the campus' Blackboard server that their
> other instructors used and for which we pay a bazillion dollars to license
> and another bazillion in IT costs to maintain.
> 
> Judy
> 
> On Wed, 4 May 2011, Terry Judd wrote:
> 
>> It's big because the main alternatives (notably BlackBoard) are so awful
>> (and awfully expensive). I'm no big fan of Learning Management Systems but
>> they're here to stay (at least in tertiary educational environments) -
>> administrators love them, educators not so much. We're currently building a
>> bespoke learning environment (emphasis on learning) for medical students
>> (LiveCode clients, mysql/php backend) and plan to phase out the use
>> Blackboard during 2012. I'm expecting a 'please explain' call from the
>> university's IT decision makers before too long.
> 
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Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Education Unit
Melbourne Medical School
The University of Melbourne