+1 I felt the same way! We need to hang out. :D
BR,
Jason
On 09/28/2010 11:29 PM, Thadeus Burgess wrote:
Don't copy any of those former systems do.
As a student, I have a great disdain for webct, moodle, and the ilk.
These are the key features from a students perspective.
1. Time spent on it. I want to spend as little time as possible on the
site so I can get back to being lazy. All I care about is A) What
assignments have I not done, and B) what is the last possible moment I
could finish them.
2. Cross-platform. I actually had to purchase and install windows just
so I could use IE 5 to check my assignments and turn them in. The
horror!
3. Messages to email box (assignment alerts would be nice too). I
don't want to have to communicate with my professor through a poorly
implemented email messaging system. Allow me to use my actual email to
communicate with my professor. I am thinking of something similar to
Disqus that allows you to reply to threads as a email reply.
--
Thadeus
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Jason Brower<encomp...@gmail.com> wrote:
Now that I think of it, your right, these are things that my teachers have
complained about too. :D
On 09/28/2010 06:26 PM, mdipierro wrote:
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
