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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Places to Go: Moodle - Stephen Downes, Innovate Online
With the recent merger between Blackboard and WebCT creating a giant in the academic course management system (CMS) market, academic computing staffs have been casting about for alternative products. As their responses have indicated, educational technologists are concerned that the merger will lead to an increased cost for the software, a decreased likelihood that the new company—now in a near-monopoly position—will expand and improve that software, and an increased possibility of becoming locked into a proprietary solution that will not allow academic administrators to customize the software to meet their own needs. Systems such as Sakai, Bodington, and .LRN have emerged as potential alternatives, but Moodle, an open source CMS written in a computer scripting language called PHP, has received especially enthusiastic responses from educational technologists. The Open University, for example, recently announced its support for Moodle, and Canada’s Athabasca University adopted Moodle last summer.
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