I have heard of an open source online learning system to rival Blackboard and the others called Moodle, which you can view at http://moodle.org/. Apparently you can upload anything to it you wish to have an online presence for your course. Some Universities have switched to it altogether because of its low cost and flexibility. And according to one user, "Moodle is powerful, simple to use, and has a huge support community at moodle.org. It is not as glamorous as some of the corporate platforms, but it looks and feels like social media rather than a corporate file repository, so I find that students love it." Others indicate that the quiz function is hard to use but if you do not like it or have hard time using you can integrate your favorite quiz software.
For those wanting to see how it works Keith Landa, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center at Purchase College SUNY has a presentation on how he has made the transition at two campuses away from Blackboard:
http://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa/migrating-to-moodle-faculty-student-and-technology-perspectives
Moodle-related postings at Landa's center's blog site can be found at:
http://tltc.blogs.purchase.edu/?s=moodle
Their Moodle support channel to orient faculty is found at Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/channels/97810
As someone who needs to have the technician come out from Comcast to get a universal remote to work I am not the one to coach or council others in our learning community on its use. If there are those out there who are using Moodle and would like to share your experience on a blog post send it to me and I will happily post it in the future.
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