tech ramblings

I didn’t get to that seminar, too busy with visitors from a Chinese university.

I have been reviewing some FOSS Learning Management Systems for possible use within the Web Discipline.

Moodle: http://moodle.org/
Widely used,
probably the most feature rich of the ones I’ve looked at,  including a built
in Wiki and good facilities for tracking learner usage.  There is a nice summary
comparing Moodle to Blackboard here:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm

.LRN:
http://dotlrn.org/
This one was developed by
MIT but I am not keen on some of the features, such as using
WimpyPoint for presentations.  (While WP is a nice piece of software this would be
a barrier to entry for some.)

ATutor: http://www.atutor.ca/
This one is focusing
on being accessible and meets WCAG 1.0 accessibility specifications.

Have
people experienced using any of these packages or have opinions about the
goodness or otherwise of any of the above?

We are getting an in house Moodle server that I will co-administer for test purposes.  Should be interesting.  And it is of course much cheaper than the solution the university uses at present.