Just this evening I received an email from our Chief Information Officer stating that the long anticipated Moodle system was installed on our server at school. This is very exciting for me as our campus’s CMS administrator. For several years now I had hoped to offer this free alternative to our current CMS, Blackboard Learn ver. 9, to those faculty members who admonished the system for whatever reason. Now we have that chance.
I would again like to implement the work from my Action Research project and create tutorials that can be placed on the Media Services website to train users on the Moodle system. If the tutorials are successful in supporting learning on this new system, and the system itself is welcomed into the hybrid and online learning environments, I could see making a case to switch over to Moodle entirely. This could allow more control over customizing our learning environments, and ultimately save the college a lot of money in the process.
I hope to put into place systems that will measure the usage of the Moodle system in comparison to Blackboard to determine the rate of adoption. This will also be a great chance to track the usage of the Media Services tutorial website on a system from the ground up, to see if the availability of reference materials improves the overall acceptance of the new CMS system.
Good luck. You might be interested to know that we're in the process of getting a UDUTU workspace for future LMO students to play with. Dr. Gibson was working hard to make that happen and the new instructor, Dr. McBride, has picked up the challenge. I'm glad that you're getting a chance to apply your appreciation and CMS savvy to your work.
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