Open source course management system adoption in Canadian universities and colleges

One of the significant advances in software design afforded by the internet has been the open source movement, an effort to collaboratively create software and make it widely and freely available to the online community. Although the open source movement started with Unix-like computer operating systems, it has expanded to include a wide variety of software programs, including tools to publish and analyze online surveys. This article introduces the open source movement and then profiles three leading open source survey programs: php Easy Survey Package (phpESP), PHP Surveyor, and the Moodle course management system.

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An implementation of Sakai open source course management system in post-secondary education

2010 International Conference on Educational and Information Technology ◽

10.1109/iceit.2010.5607619 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Gary K. W. Wong ◽

Winn W. Y. Chow ◽

Kirk H. M. Wong ◽

Sam K. K. Chow ◽

Justin C. H. Lam ◽

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Keyword(s):

Secondary Education ◽

Open Source ◽

Management System ◽

Course Management System ◽

Course Management ◽

Post Secondary Education ◽

Post Secondary

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Open Source Survey Software

Software Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-060-8.ch008 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 82-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jason D. Baker

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Operating Systems ◽

Software Design ◽

Management System ◽

Online Community ◽

Course Management System ◽

The Internet ◽

Course Management ◽

Online Surveys ◽

Software Programs

One of the significant advances in software design afforded by the Internet has been the open source movement, an effort to collaboratively create software and make it widely and freely available to the online community. Although the open source movement started with Unix-like computer operating systems, it has expanded to include a wide variety of software programs, including tools to publish and analyze online surveys. This chapter introduces the open source movement, and then profiles three leading open source survey programs: php Easy Survey Package (phpESP), PHP Surveyor, and the Moodle course management system.

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Choosing the Right Course Management System for Distance Education Courses

Cases on Online Learning Communities and Beyond ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1936-4.ch012 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 214-238

Author(s):

Zafer Unal ◽

Aslihan Unal

Keyword(s):

Distance Education ◽

Open Source ◽

Management System ◽

Detailed Comparison ◽

Course Management System ◽

Management Systems ◽

Course Management Systems ◽

Course Management ◽

The Right ◽

Education Courses

In the current market space there are many commercially available Course Management Systems (CMS) from which to choose, such as BlackBoard and Desire2Learn. The open source community has also been active in creating alternative course management system choices that are free of licensing costs (Moodle, Sakai). Institutions now have the choice between these competing CMSs, and it is not enough to just pick a package based on its price or feature list. Institutions considering implementing a CMS must carefully evaluate it before putting it to use with a student population. A trial was undertaken to consider whether Moodle warranted a more formal consideration as an alternative to the institution’s current CMS (BlackBoard) at a southeastern university. This report documents a detailed comparison of BlackBoard and Moodle CMSs based on students’ experiences that used both systems during the same course and investigates if Moodle warrants consideration as an alternative to the institution’s current course management system.

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Integrating an open-source course management system (Moodle) into the teaching of a first-year medical physiology course: a case study

AJP Advances in Physiology Education ◽

10.1152/advan.00008.2011 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 369-377 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Kumar Seluakumaran ◽

Felicita Fedelis Jusof ◽

Rosnah Ismail ◽

Ruby Husain

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Management System ◽

Course Management System ◽

First Year ◽

Final Examination ◽

Course Management ◽

Dynamic Learning ◽

Web Based ◽

Face To Face ◽

Web Based Learning

Educators in medical schools around the world are presently experimenting with innovative ways of using web-based learning to supplement the existing teaching and learning process. We have recently used a popular open-source course management system (CMS) called the modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) to construct an online site (DPhysiol) to facilitate our face-to-face teaching of physiology to a group of first-year students in the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery program. The integration of the Moodle site into our teaching was assessed using online log activity, student examination marks, and feedback from students. The freely available Moodle platform was simple to use, helped to effectively deliver course materials, and has features that allowed cooperative learning. Students who used the CMS throughout their academic year and commented favorably regarding its use as a complement to the face-to-face classroom sessions. The group of students used the CMS obtained significantly higher scores in the final examination compared with the previous class that did not use the CMS. In addition, there was a significant correlation between student participation and performance in online quizzes and their final examination marks. However, students' overall online usage of the CMS did not correlate with their examination marks. We recommend Moodle as a useful tool for physiology educators who are interested in integrating web-based learning into their existing teaching curriculum.

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