Could Moodle be the answer to the question?

So it appears our LMS choice has been narrowed down to Moodle, which would be hosted by an external company that specialises in hosting Moodle and another open source platform for corporate clients.  I am quite fond of Moodle because of its open source nature – being built for a community by a community around educational prinicples [...]

Square pegs, round holes and LMS providers

A short note today about our continued LMS adventures at work.  We have been narrowing down the list to those who best meet our requirements and along the way have had a few providers try to fit square pegs in rounds holes, sometimes spectucularly so.  However, there was one provider who struck me with their honesty.  [...]

An LMS meeting on a different note… hopefully

As I have been freed to move on from webinars to other projects one of my next focuses is deciding on an LMS. We’ve gotten to the point that our list of requirements and their priorities are defined so we’re interviewing potential providers to see whether they can meet our requirements and if their L&D [...]

HR are from Venus and IT are from Mars

After being waylaid for four months with another project, this week I have made a return to our much needed LMS project.  After completing the project plan and finalising the scope and requirements I set off in search of some providers to meet with.  Considering this project involves use of technolgy in the business, even [...]

What I want in a discussion board

As part of our big LMS adventure I have been writing a business requirements document, which has got me thinking in more explicit verbal terms about what I want rather than in my previous daydreams which have been fruitful but less determined.
I am currently a user of Blackboard and something which really annoys me is that [...]

Moodle, Open Source, Security and crazy IT debates

I’ve been doing some research into Learner Management Systems (LMS) lately, and having the kind of ideas that I do about e-Learning and web 2.0 the first place I looked toward was Moodle because it is open source (source code is freely available to developers – other examples of open source projects include Mozilla and Drupal).  Because [...]