Let's get all these different LMS out of the way so that there is only blackboard left. And everyone who goes to school has only 1 interface to view, and we can all pay a BlackBoard tax, much like the Windows tax. That is so great, let's do it again.
Nobody cares about LMS. I maintain and develop LogiCampus, and I've had 1 or 2 forum posts in the past year. I even offered to give free upgrades to anyone who asked for them. The time to care about LMS is gone, every school buys Blackboard because they *have* to buy something. They can't use open source products, that doesn't fit into the budget somehow. Everybody uses wikipedia and blackboard, and that's fine because I'm done with college and institutionalized learning. Have a great education every body younger than me! Just make sure it's the exact same one as your neighbor's.
We all know that the business world doesn't function on the best choices. It functions on the least painful choice, or the most obvious choice, neither of which are usually the best choice.
I once did an evaluation of 5 open source LMS so, I know that there is lots of choice out there. The problem is that nobody cares. A lot of people like to complain about things like blackboard suing people, but nobody actually does anything. If you want to do something about it, go to your local opensource LMS provider and give some feedback, write some documentation, or run some tests. It's the only way to make the alternative choices more attractive to the decision makers.
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Let's get all these different LMS out of the way so that there is only blackboard left. And everyone who goes to school has only 1 interface to view, and we can all pay a BlackBoard tax, much like the Windows tax. That is so great, let's do it again.
Nobody cares about LMS. I maintain and develop LogiCampus, and I've had 1 or 2 forum posts in the past year. I even offered to give free upgrades to anyone who asked for them. The time to care about LMS is gone, every school buys Blackboard because they *have* to buy something. They can't use open source products, that doesn't fit into the budget somehow. Everybody uses wikipedia and blackboard, and that's fine because I'm done with college and institutionalized learning. Have a great education every body younger than me! Just make sure it's the exact same one as your neighbor's.
We all know that the business world doesn't function on the best choices. It functions on the least painful choice, or the most obvious choice, neither of which are usually the best choice.
I once did an evaluation of 5 open source LMS so, I know that there is lots of choice out there. The problem is that nobody cares. A lot of people like to complain about things like blackboard suing people, but nobody actually does anything. If you want to do something about it, go to your local opensource LMS provider and give some feedback, write some documentation, or run some tests. It's the only way to make the alternative choices more attractive to the decision makers.