I am the chair of a a university committee in charge of evaluating LMS. We looked at many.
The major players are: - Blackbard (BB) - Desire2Learn (D2L) - Moodle (free) BB acquired webct (and killed it), Angel (excellent system, will kill it too), Wimba (video chat, thus cutting D2L out) and sued D2L (lost). Moodle is very poor in comparison to BB and D2L but free. It is written in PHP and people hacked into it during the demo. BB and D2L cost $100,000+ year in license (not including hosting) to a medium size university in their base configuration. The base configuration DOES NOT include: - CMS - Wiki/Blogging system - Video confrencing - Storage for large files and media streaming capability All the existing LMS have a basic desin flaw. The content belongs to a course not the author. That means that if the author is an instructor who uses the same content in multiple courses, the content has to be replicated. At best they offer tools to replicate content and charge an arm and a leg for this. Content (files, assignments, wikis, blogs, videos, etc.) should belong to whoever created it. Courses should just contain people (not stuff). Stuff is made available to courses. the course opening page itself should be a wiki page made available to the members (the students). Groups should have a hierarchy. Massimo On Sep 28, 9:39 am, Richard Vézina <ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is a big project and most university are already involved with vendor > like WebCT or other open source project... > > I think the inertia force will be really big... > > But, it have been demonstrated that the projects already available are > difficult to make evolved... So, web2py could offer an easily evolving > environnement of learning management system. > > With a lite learning management system you could targetted the market of > business. > > Richard > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:01 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > Once again... who here is interested in a web2py based Learning > > Management system? > > What features would you like to see? > > > Massimo > >
