{"id":159,"date":"2003-04-29T09:58:39","date_gmt":"2003-04-29T17:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/29\/open-source-courseware-evaluation-and-rating\/"},"modified":"2003-04-29T09:58:39","modified_gmt":"2003-04-29T17:58:39","slug":"open-source-courseware-evaluation-and-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/29\/open-source-courseware-evaluation-and-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Courseware &#8212; Evaluation and Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Reynolds over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xplana.com\/\">Xplana<\/a>&nbsp;has posted this useful piece that helps frame some of the issues an institution should factor in when considering looking at an open source solution to course management systems, proposes a rating scheme based on these factors and rates many of the currently available options.&nbsp;While I might differ on a few small&nbsp;points (OCW is not a CMS!!) I think I would also end up suggesting&nbsp;the same four products that show up in his 2 top 3 lists (CHEF, LON-CAPA, Moodle, FLE3) are the most likely contenders. <\/p>\n<p>There are a few things I think we at edutools can learn for the factors he&nbsp;highlights as important (we allow reviews by features, but don&#8217;t tie features to these kinds of factors in any strong manner). That said, one lesson I think we&#8217;ve learned is that you end up getting way to much clumping in the middle on a 5 point scale (mean on this was 21 with highest score 24 and lowest 17). But I&#8217;m probably getting nitpicky as it is getting to the end of the day &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Reynolds over at Xplana&nbsp;has posted this useful piece that helps frame some of the issues an institution should factor in when considering looking at an open source solution to course management systems, proposes a rating scheme based on these factors and rates many of the currently available options.&nbsp;While I might differ on a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2003\/04\/29\/open-source-courseware-evaluation-and-rating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Open Source Courseware &#8212; Evaluation and Rating&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-management-systems","tag-cms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}