My aim for next week is to get more involved in the conversations happening through Moodle and reading other blogs and commenting. ...Tags: So first week down – and it’s been pretty much learning in isolation for me this week – a paradox when talking about Connectivism! I

My new job will not use Moodle. This transition should make great writing fodder in the future Here's the Moodle implementation - start to finish: Implementing Moodle Moodle from Local Host to DNS Convincing the Boss Convincing the Boss - the Demo Courses Convincing the Boss - a Successful First Benchmark Next Step - Convincing Senior Staff Arguments for Open Source in a Corporate Environment Finding Talent Right in Front of You Stupid Moodle Tricks - Setting Up LDAP Moodle Human Issues - User Accounts Decisions Part 1 - User Accounts

Moodle is well known for a slight lack of design flair in the out-of-the-box theme packs. Often, though, we'll need to redesign the overall look and feel of a Moodle site. Moodle is a very complex application, with many different parts of the interface that need styling. Secondly, remember that That's fine. They still work.

In his post, George describes Moodle as being one of many "content-centric" systems. Martin Dougiamas (founder of Moodle) then comments: Moodle itself is actually activity-centric. Facilitators using Moodle start with an empty course container and use a handy collection of tools/apps/modules to build a collection or series of Via Jane Hart . George Siemens is discussing whether the future of learning is in Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Social Networking Systems .

They are usually fans of Moodle, even if they’ve not used it (but have talked [...] Blackboard Blackboard Moodle myBU PLN Technology University 2.0 As a user of Blackboard at Bournemouth University I have been involved in various discussion about it’s merit or lack of). These are usually started by someone who doesn’t like Blackboard, and probably hasn’t used it much either (or even tried?).

And “in times like these…” Why pay for a pricey LMS when you can Moodle or Drupal or Sakai ? Why do companies continue to pay huge dollars for products that are now being offered for free? Moodle and other open source products have huge communities behind them. There’s no vendor who creates Moodle per say. Richard Nantel of Brandon Hall recently posted about average LMS prices . A ‘low-cost’ LMS starts at an average of $58K.