Hello,
2015-05-05 0:00 GMT+03:00 Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk:
I noticed that Eliademy documents importing from Moodle, but we're all interested in import and export, of course. ;-)
Yes. That's why I hope they will export the course in COmmon Cartridge format for me.
But if it does not work for some reason - I just will create it in my own Moodle instance.
Sadly, proprietary systems like Fronter (owned by Pearson, but with
Norwegian origins and receiving a degree of favoritism) are widely used, although I did notice that my former employer had chosen FutureLearn [1], which is also proprietary as far as I can tell. Moodle doesn't seem to be that widely used, and I can envisage pressure being applied to existing users to switch to something proprietary that "everyone else is using".
What I've seen is that adopting "packaged" proprietary solutions is often justified on cost-reduction grounds, but the IT budget and burden still manages to increase. I guess I should summarise some of my observations in blog form: it won't be very encouraging reading, though.
Paul
It would be great if you make a post about these issues. I will be able to point Eliademy guys there - they use Moodle as a core.
Fantastic thing will be to convince them to make their platform free.