Let’s get ready to Moodle
March 16th, 2006 by jbowesAn 2005 article written by Stephen Corich for a New Zealand journal comparing Blackboard and Moodle from the perspective of a long term user who is facing migrating courses. In a nutshell, he found that Moodle could do what Blackboard did and in some cases more. Importantly, 80% of students preferred it. An excerpt from the paper sums up thus:
“During the evaluation, the writer moved from being a skeptic, who believed that Moodle adoption would be an unwise move, to an enthusiastic supporter of Moodle, despite its relative immaturity as a product. The way that Moodle encourages instructors to organize materials sequentially and the tools that Moodle offers instructors and students to encourage regular student participation in course activities, make it an attractive proposition as an institutional solution for supporting e-learning. The claims that Moodle was developed from the ground up with the principles of social constructivism in mind seem to be justified. The writer was so impressed with the Moodle approach that he has decided to stop developing the LMS that he has been using successfully in an intranet environment and move to Moodle.”
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