Archive for the 'Moodle' Category

Becta, Microsoft, Open Source and Learning Platforms

An article on ZDNet with Stephen Lucey (Becta’s executive director of strategic technologies) is worth a read. Good advice for Vista and Office 2007. I am glad that Stephen defined a learning platform in the following way: A learning platform is a range of products, so we were looking for the ability of a supplier [...]

Embedding, licences and lock-in

Ian Usher of Bucks (and big Moodle advocate) makes an interesting point in a recent blog posting: embedding a learning platform in the culture of a school is something which you can’t do during a month’s or a week’s “free trial” of a commercial product – unless they’re willing to let you trial it for [...]

‘Free’ vs ‘Paid For’ is a Red Herring

Moodle still seems to be centre stage in the ongoing debate over the place of open source software in education. This is primarily due to the knot Becta appear to be typing themselves up in with regard to the learning platform framework and the inconvenient fact that many schools (and LAs) seem to like Moodle. [...]