developing a "consumer" resource - LMS/CMS Wiki
EDTECH Editor-Beil
Hello there, my name is Dave Melone and I am a graduate student working
toward a Masters in Educational Technology. I am working on a class
project that involves setting up a distributed networking resource. We
were given broad latitude in the topic of our project; and I have had a
particularly recent, long, and painful RFP process in selecting a new LMS
platform and hosting vendor for my "work" school. Everywhere I turned it
was difficult to get a straight story between flourishing vendor demos and
bits and pieces of hear-say at conferences. Online resources were
difficult to find. Of particular help were two resources I found. One
was the EduTools comparison tool and another, which I found too late into
the process, was a Wiki via Brock Unversity. I am looking to bring fresh
opinions into the game and ask some questions about Open Source choices
like Sakai, Drupal, and Moodle. Experiences in all major and even minor
platforms is welcome. And above all I want to have a lasting resource
that can compliment the other out there.
I set up a Wiki called the LMS/CMS Wiki which is now open and available at
http://www.withaq.net/wiki/ I am asking for any educational technology
professionals that have a spare moment to come populate this Wiki which an
relevant thoughts, specs, or warnings about different LMS and CMS
packages. These thoughts can range from customizations (we all make
them), usability, learning curve, everything from techie to pedagogical in
nature is welcome. So please come visit and contribute if only for the
community's good. As it is a Wiki, you can create an account and edit
most pages save for a few template pages I created to keep it loosely
organized. I aim to include screenshots, have discussion, and slowly work
on a nice matrix for quick comparison purposes. I chose a few of the most
popular packages to start with, but we can add more. The LMS/CMS Wiki is
very much in it's formative stages and there are some loose ends here and
there that I am sure we'll work out. Currently I am starting to fill info
about the LMS I have had direct experience with: Lotus LMS and Sakai. If
you are interested in contributing, feel free to go ahead and check out
http://www.withaq.net/wiki/, or send me an email with your thoughts about
it.
Thank you for your time in reading this, I hope it is an appropriate forum
to ask this in, as I am a "n00b."
Dave Melone
dmelone2 -AT- uiuc.edu
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The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising
919 S. Grand Avenue, L.A., CA 90015
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