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Ted Curran

http://remote-learner.net/sites/default/files/file/NC_osc_feasibility_study_full_report... - 1 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 26 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Ted Curran on 26 Jan 11
     
    North Carolina LMS Feasibility study comparing Bb and Moodle
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Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal L... - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 09 Mar 11 - Cached
  • If you want more than a simple bookmarking tool, Diigo is for you! Compared with other bookmarking tools, Diigo enables you to do so much more. Period.
  • If you read a lot digitally, Diigo is for you! Compared with other information management tools, Diigo is differentiated by its focus on e-reading.
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      Ted Curran on 09 Mar 11
       
      Diigo is an excellent way for groups of people to collaboratively annotate a website online. All notes, annotations, and bookmarks go into a socially comment-able feed that allows users to co-construct knowledge.
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Academic Study of Blackboard vs. Sakai at UNC School of Medicine - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 14 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The battle of the bullet points, where vendors are compared mainly based on long but shallow lists of features, is thankfully going away.
  • The assessment document, then, did not tell the whole story of vendor difference; the means by which a product delivered a solution to a given requirement showed a level of depth not reflected in the assessment document.
  • requirement #89 (the ability to deliver small groups) is marked in the RFP as a requirement fulfilled by both products, but in reality the groups provided in Blackboard do not have the same flexibility as those found within Sakai
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  • It is telling that for the SOM, neither cost nor feature set stood out as the biggest difference between competing LMS products, but flexibility.
  • In UNC School of Medicine’s case, Sakai was judged to be more flexible than Blackboard.
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Blackboard vs. Moodle: North Carolina Community Colleges Assessment - 0 views

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shared by Ted Curran on 23 Apr 10 - Cached
  • “The end-of-term student and instructor surveys showed that Blackboard and Moodle are not that different.” All of these systems are pretty good/bad.
  • “The real difference is found in student perception of their teachers’ comfort level with the application. There exists a significant correlation between student survey scores of both Blackboard and Moodle with the perceived comfort level of instructors using either application. Thus, student perceptions of both CMSs were influenced by instructor experience, training, and skills.” The fact that your faculty reviewers are more familiar with your old system than some of the alternatives may bias their evaluations significantly.
  • “Case studies of four exclusively Moodle institutions indicated that while transition to Moodle was challenging, ultimately the case study students and faculty preferred Moodle over Blackboard.”
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  • “The CMS application functionality comparison by online administrators (application and network) and online instructors indicated that Moodle 1.9x has a higher perceived functionality than any version of Blackboard evaluated. The large number of “did not use” responses suggested that neither CMS platform was utilized to full capacity.” Having a system with 39,000 seldom-used features that require a course to learn how to use is not as valuable to you as having a system with 39 features that most people will find useful and can figure out how to use on their own.
  • “The analysis revealed the total pre-transition year cost for all four case study colleges totaled $184,410. There was a 35% increase in total cost in the transition year to $248,300, due to supporting two CMSs simultaneously. Lastly, the post-transition year cost of ownership was $52,296, which accounted for a 72% decrease in total cost compared to that of the pre-transition year. The total cost savings from preto post-transition years for all of the case study colleges was $132,114.” Consider long-run costs as well as short-run costs. Migration may be cheaper than staying put, and the more expensive migration in the short run may be cheaper in the long run.
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