{"id":1602,"date":"2011-03-14T09:37:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T15:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2014-09-12T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T16:56:33","slug":"public-lms-evaluations-mark-smithers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/03\/14\/public-lms-evaluations-mark-smithers\/","title":{"rendered":"Public LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masmithers.com\/2009\/09\/20\/public-lms-evaluations\/\">Public LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting post on decisions made by some universities regarding which LMS to choose.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.google.com\/rodcorbett#rodcorbett\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Corbett<\/a> for putting this in my path.<\/p>\n<p>I must say that I found <a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moodle <\/a>pretty easy to install, set up, and maintain. Since I did this on my own with NO funding, an enterprise system was not even a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I STILL think that a school could hire several full-time people dedicated to maintaining Moodle and still spend less money than they would for something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlackBoard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1602'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1602);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1602);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1602);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Public LMS Evaluations | Mark Smithers. This is an interesting post on decisions made by some universities regarding which LMS to choose. Thanks to Rod Corbett for putting this in my path. I must say that I found Moodle pretty &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/03\/14\/public-lms-evaluations-mark-smithers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[389,15,123],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","tag-educational-technology","tag-higher-education","tag-lms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-pQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":477,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2010\/01\/31\/fun-with-google-docs-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":0},"title":"Fun with Google Docs (Part 1)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"January 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, this is just too much fun. 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I'm seeing similar edicts coming from other universities too. I moved all of my university-related stuff to my own private domain several years before I actually left the university because I found it increasingly difficult\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2308,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/06\/16\/the-end-user-view-of-technology-not-good-enough\/","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":3},"title":"The End-User View of Technology &#8211; Not Good Enough","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"June 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sadly, this is the POV (point of view = perspective) that most teachers have. I don't blame them - it's not really their fault. On the other hand, the professors who teach them should know better. Them I do blame. 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For example, while I don\u2019t show too many PowerPoints in English composition, every time I introduce\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}