A lot of institutions have either moved or in the process of moving to moodle. University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) is using Moodlerooms.org for moodle hosting services.
http://www.betanews.com/newswire/pr/University_of_Louisiana_at_Monroe_Chooses_Moodlerooms_for_its_Learning_Management_System/88161 A step in the right direction. Moodlerooms claim that BR city government is using moodle rooms. I wonder what they are using it for. Unlike with blackboard, if you don't like services form one company you can switch to another or better yet manage your own. The beauty of switching to FOSS. What needs to be done is to create a Louisiana based moodle community to share experiences and for support. Karthik > I'm thinking that the first time they run into minor trouble, they will call > the company that manages Moodle for help. Then they will likely pay for a > small support contract to get their fixes done more quickly. It is still a > good thing for those involved, since there are usually varying levels of > support contracts, and they are probably much cheaper than 350K/yr and the > developers get paid to keep things going. > > With the way that LSU's intellectual property rules work, I can't imagine LSU > giving developer time to the project. I hope I'm wrong on this... :-)
