LC in Education

[Judy Perry]

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.