Hello,
2015-05-05 0:00 GMT+03:00 Paul Boddie <[email protected]>: > > I noticed that Eliademy documents importing from Moodle, but we're all > interested in import and export, of course. ;-) > > Yes. That's why I hope they will export the course in COmmon Cartridge format for me. But if it does not work for some reason - I just will create it in my own Moodle instance. Sadly, proprietary systems like Fronter (owned by Pearson, but with > Norwegian > origins and receiving a degree of favoritism) are widely used, although I > did > notice that my former employer had chosen FutureLearn [1], which is also > proprietary as far as I can tell. Moodle doesn't seem to be that widely > used, > and I can envisage pressure being applied to existing users to switch to > something proprietary that "everyone else is using". > > What I've seen is that adopting "packaged" proprietary solutions is often > justified on cost-reduction grounds, but the IT budget and burden still > manages to increase. I guess I should summarise some of my observations in > blog form: it won't be very encouraging reading, though. > > Paul > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureLearn > It would be great if you make a post about these issues. I will be able to point Eliademy guys there - they use Moodle as a core. Fantastic thing will be to convince them to make their platform free. -- WBR & WBW, Vitaly
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