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Open Source Does Not Mean Free. Moodle Anyone?

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I constantly come across clients who seem to be very impressed by the free tag that Moodle comes with. It is both disappointing and funny at the same time. What clients fail to realize, initially at least, is that there’s no such thing as ‘free lunch’ And there will never be. I think clients falsely […].

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The Real Cost of a Free (Open Source) LMS!

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Moodle is a good LMS with which has grown over the years and offers a host of functionality and features that are very useful to have in an LMS. Moodle has been able to sustain itself and keep evolving through its community, resulting in its emergence as a good option for anyone wanting to use an LMS. Nothing else!

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Open Source is Not Cheap, Leave Alone Free

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We keep meeting prospects who are considering Moodle as their first LMS. In an attempt to advise our clients to choose an Open Source LMS after doing proper home-work, we have written these articles: The Real Cost of Free (Open Source) LMS. The Right Way To Go About Open Source LMS.

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eLearning Australia

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On the LMS front there seems to be preference for local providers but that should change too as content outsourcing increases. Moodle is quite popular here, after all Australia is its birthplace and one will find that developers support the product quite strongly. Mobile learning is being talked about a lot but not delivered that much.

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April 2010 Monthly Roundup: 10 Most Popular Posts

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We talked on various topics in April – from LMS to Augmented Reality, from Games to AS 3.0 Below are our Top 10 posts for the month, each accompanied by a quick brief: Top 13 LMS (and Learning Technology) Blogs. Lists top 13 blogs that we follow for LMS and learning technology. 5 Good TED Talks On Games.

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eLearning: Interesting Weekly Finds #8

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Chamilo – this is a new open source LMS that may become an alternative to Moodle in the future. The Ptex library is the same production-proven code used at Disney and included with Pixar’s PRMan, and includes full support for reading, writing, caching, and filtering Ptex texture files.

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Will Learning Adopt the Linux Model for Development in the Future?

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I was thinking this is exactly how the LMS will be in couple of decades; there’ll be one crowd sourced root kernel. Each provider would use that kernel in their own way; what’ll be cool is there’d be a huge offering of interfaces, infinite customizations, almost an individualized system even.

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