Como continuación a nuestro post del viernes 30 de marzo de 2012, titulado #Blackboard
acquires #Moodle partners ... Felicidad, izquierda, huelga general
#29M, #15M , caos y “bloquear la sociedad-empresa” ... en la que hablábamos de la adquisición de Moodlerooms por Blackboard ... y hoy os traemos información sobre Moodlerooms ...que se vende así:
size does not fit all. That's why Moodlerooms takes a consultative
approach to ensure you only pay for what your institution, school or
organization needs to achieve its e-learning goals.
wrap enterprise services and extended features around an open-source
Moodle core to provide you with a learning management solution that is
affordable and provides freedom from exorbitant proprietary licensing
fees and the need to purchase and maintain costly hardware. The result?
You incur the lowest total cost of ownership. See how Moodlerooms can
help you:
provides organizations with the fundamental services, functionality and
e-Learning capabilities they need to focus on the success of their
learning program. We provide a limited number of enhancements as well as
hosting, maintenance and support for organizations wanting to run their
Moodlerooms platform on a more basic level. Learn More
like to get the most out of their e-Learning program. joule users gain
access to additional Moodlerooms developments, add-on modules (including
social, mobile and synchronous), third-party plugins and access to our full suite of service
offerings. Organizations can pick and choose the features and services
they need to run their e-Learning program the way they want. Learn More
También os traemos un artículo Article In Focus: EDUCAUSE Review: A Post LMS World by Lou Pugliese, Chairman and CEO of Moodlerooms (pdf, 33pp), que comienza así: 
Department Editor’s Note: As the editor of the New Horizons
department for 2012, I will be inviting authors to explore and
discern emerging trends from a standpoint that straddles the
visionary and the practical, enhancing our understanding so
that we can shape our present-day decisions to build more
effectively for the future. As the year progresses, we will explore
trends in teaching and learning, assessment, and the enterprise.
There is no better place to start than by looking at the future of
the LMS, which has been dramatically successful in becoming
our core learning technology even as it simultaneously shows
symptoms of impending obsolescence. At EDUCAUSE 2011
in Philadelphia, Gardner Campbell suggested that we change
our moniker for—and thus our conception of—this technology
from learning management system to understanding augmentation
network. Similar sentiments are being expressed by others.
What forces are at work? What opportunities
should we seize? —Ethan Benatan The learning management
system (LMS), which facilitates
the rapidly expanding
e-learning/blended-learning
industry, has been one of the
fastest-growing technology-adoption phenomena
in the 400-year history of higher
education. As with industry, education is still
in the process of developing a true understanding
of how best to maximize the capabilities
of the LMS to teach and train efficiently.
But a solid fifteen years of experience
with institutionalized learning management platforms have
provided us a fair degree of insight into the real challenges and
potential of effectively executed online instruction. And what
we see is a unique opportunity for the kind of true innovation
that can transform higher education.
The exponential growth of open source, a new age of
interoperable systems, and the increasing demand for
e-
learning solutions have converged to make the time right
for a new kind of LMS. According to Babson Survey Research
Group, 65 percent of all reporting higher education institutions
said that online learning was a critical part of their
long-term strategy, and over 6.1 million students took at least
one online course during the fall 2010 term—an increase of
560,000 students over the previous year.1 With such significant
organic growth, it is no surprise that administration,
faculty, and students are calling for deep changes, including... "(leer más...)
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