Virtual Learning: Reinventing the wheel? October 9, 2008
Posted by Jonathan Hewett in : delicious links , add a commentThe Open University’s head of learning innovation responded to a question I keep encountering. In his answers, institutional (corporate) priorities loom large, of course — but integration and one-step authentication are also about making it work well for student and staff users.
One of the questions which crops up regularly at the OU is why we’re enhancing tools such as blogs and wikis within Moodle when there are better ones out there on the Internet which we could give access to instead. Why don’t we just provide WordPress and MediaWiki which have a lot more features than their Moodle equivalents?
