[Moodle] Learning Management: managing learning? managing students?

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Connect, integrate and exchange .. sounds like the secret behind Kevork over
the past few years. I was blown away by his conference presentation last
year and this mantra underpinned his fantastic work.

Donna is right too .. small and scalable with universally agreed open
standards is the way to go. On another thread we discussed SCORM as a
standard for developing and sharing training modules. If we fail to go this
path, we will end up with a vendor lock-in problem that interactive
whiteboard users suffer and we will all be the poorer.

On the ACEC2008 study tour it was noted that some of these open source admin
tools were in use in NZ. I'll see if I can dig up the details from my notes.

Regards Roland

2009/11/9 Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au>

> Donald raised an interesting question in saying...
>
> "Ultranet is designed from an administrative perspective and try to
> include Learning Management module. Whereas Moodle is designed from a
> Learning Management perspective and try to include any administrative
> modules."
>
> Something similar crossed my mind as I reviewed some of the info out
> there on Ultranet and L360. So we all know and love Moodle... but what
> about the admin?
>
> Here are some open source tools - I've got zero hands on experience with
> any of them... but perhaps some of you:
>  - have heard about,
>  - already evaluated,
>  - want to explore
> other open source school admin software options? :)
>
> http://schooltool.org/
> SchoolTool is a suite of free administrative software for schools.
>
> http://richtech.ca/openadmin/
> Open Admin for Schools is a School Administration Program.
>
> http://opensis.com/
> OPEN SOURCE STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
>
> What other open source tools are there for managing school information
> such as...
>  - attendance
>  - student reports
>  - school funding and finances
>  - school sports results
>  - parents association
>  - timetabling
>  - professional learning
>  - library information
>  - website
>  - other critical tasks?
>
> It doesn't have to do everything... Remember the unix approach is to
> have small tools that do one thing and do it very very well - hence the
> importance of open standards so those tools can connect / integrate /
> exhange data when necessary.
>
> I've heard of proprietary attendance and reporting tools such as First
> Class and Markbook...
>
> What tools do you use?
>
> --
> Donna Benjamin - Executive Director
> Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au
> ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310 414
> open source - facilitation - web services
>
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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