[Olpc-open] CMS, Moodle, etc

[Sameer Verma]

Todd Kelsey wrote:
> dumb question - at one point WebCT was going after Sakai, I "think",
> in court -- I may not have my facts right; at any rate, is anyone
> familiar with whether there has been a definitive settlement on this
> issue? not sure if it affects Moodle or not. 
Moodle has a prior art page at
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Online_Learning_History in case someone
decides to take them up in court.

> I had some fun with Moodle -- another fun thing is there are places
> like opensourcehost that can help get moodle instances going -- which
> would help with scalability.
>
Moodlerooms is another place to look. http://www.moodlerooms.com/
> would be fun to have an open content repository that LMSes could tap
> into through "checking out" course packages.
Indeed!

cheers,
Sameer

-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/