Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Monday 08 October 2007 21:43:58 Adam Cripps wrote:
>> On 10/8/07, Samuel Penn <sam@???> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anybody have any experience with open source eLearning
>>> systems? I've found a few via Google, but wondered whether
>>> anybody here has actually used any (either as a user, or as
>>> an administrator/trainer) and whether you had any recommendations
>>> for good ones?
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>> I've used moodle [1] for a couple of projects which has gone down well
>> with educators as it is supposedly based on a pedagogy, although it
>> has been a while since I last installed and used it. Moodle is
>> developed in PHP and uses MySQL as a backend.
>
> Okay, that looks nice. I'll take a look at that. They claim to handle
> large sites as well, which is a big bonus.
>
>> I also tried COSE (Java based) some time ago (and even met the team at
>> Staffs Uni, who were developing it) which was planned to be released
>> under an open source license, but I don't think it ever was released
>> under a free license. My impressions of it were that it was clunky and
>> not intuitive.
>
> The binary can be downloaded, and they're claiming it will be open source
> one day, but no sign when.
>
> Admittedly, I'd prefer a Java solution, since it's easier to hook
> into with APIs on the backend, but Moodle does seem to be worth
> some investigation.
>
> Thanks.
>
I'll add another vote for Moodle, if it's good enough for the Open University it's good enough for
me :-)
Brian
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