I dunno... maybe I'm at the wrong educational institution, because I can tell you that where I am, admin-types would vastly prefer to pay bucketloads of dollars for something that "everybody" uses and "everybody" has heard of as opposed to a validly competitive free product.
To wit: from the California Virtual Campus consortium (http://www.cvc4.org/newscopy/Current_Events/may_update.asp) The state of California in 2003 paid the following fees to license Blackboard as an online course delivery system: 25 courses: $3,750 Unlimited: $7,500 (I think this is per participating institution but could be wrong). Ditto for WebCT: Level One-CVC Consortia License 100 seats $1000 200 seats $2000 400 seats $4000 600 seats $6000 Level Two- Campus Focus License 3000 Seats $7500 6000 Seats $15000 Now, mind you, Moodle (http://www.moodle.org) is... (drum roll, please): FREE. And, now there's apparently a new kid on the block, CourseCompass (http://info.coursecompass.com/website/faq-general.html) that is probably still a 'nobody' but aims to be a 'somebody' or even an 'everybody' by teaming up with the major educational publishing houses to make content easily (exclusively?) available online via their system. Judy On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Dan Shafer wrote: > Tough one, Marty, because there are so many free languages out there > that educational administrators' first knee-jerk reaction (as Andre > says in his reply) is to look to cost. But if you can get them past > that point then I imagine Judy Perry will have some compelling > educational arguments to bolster such a position. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution