ay, 1 September 2004, 11:40 PM
	Hi Howard, we've put together a introduction to moodle for faculty as a word doc. You can get it here:
http://learn.humboldt.edu/course/view.php?id=10

We also have done a student manual in book format, which can be printed:
http://learn.humboldt.edu/mod/book/view.php?id=416

economics article

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bmc/20040828


A Humboldt course designer and faculty member recently concluded a study where they taught the same class in Blackboard 6 and Moodle 1.3.

http://www.humboldt.edu/~jdv1/moodle/all.htm

The students were randomly divided into two groups on the first day, with half in Moodle, half in Blackboard.

Interesting data including grades, participation, and student satisfaction.

Joan will be presenting this at the CATS (California State University Academic Technology Staff) 2005 conference in Sacramento.

http://cats.cdl.edu/catsconf2005




Thanks for the replies to my post. It will be very useful for drawing up my comments. I also found a Gartner's analysis from last June, which sees no stability yet in the field and regards the long-term viability of all vendors as unproved. So, insist on standards and don't get locked in to proprietary offerings:
www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=121507