What can Moodle learn from WordPress?

WordPress is a personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.

Results…every individual who uses WordPress has a good experience right out of the box. ( Virtual Box that is)

What can Moodle learn from RedHat ?

What began as a better way to build software–openness, transparency, collaboration–soon shifted the balance of power in an entire industry. The revolution of choice continues. Today Red Hat is the world’s most trusted provider of Linux and open source technology.

 

Results … Red Hat is the recognized leader in enterprise solutions that take full advantage of the Linux innovation provided by the open source model. I think the company organized customers who needed a cost saving solution and placed a large investment in providing solutions.

What Can Moodle Learn from Web 2.0?

 

Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users.

Moodle as an open source platform needs to allows support for those WEB 2.0 services that can add value to Moodle.

Results – Faster adoption and publishing by teachers and better – richer experience for users. More first time commitment out of the box.

 

What can Moodle learn from Google Open Source?

The JavaScript API lives under the opensocial.* namespace and provides access to three primary areas of functionality:

Here are some of the things you can do with the JavaScript API:

• Build applications without maintaining your own server
• Build applications that include a server-side component (for offline processing and/or access from other websites)
• Create brand-new applications
• Expose existing web applications in the context of existing social websites
• Add social features to existing Google Gadgets
• Write one application that can run in the context of many different social websites

Results – Google partnership, server support , code support, community support, distribution and marketing.

These are all interesting opportunities – LearnCast has a goal to bring this experience into education. The out of box experience is going to get real simple for educators who do not want to learn how to configure software, just produce award winning content and see smiles on students.

We believe in the Moodle community and we want to add value to the over all Moodle world-wide support. Our plan includes value added services and custom solutions.  The biggest goal we have is to give the teacher a first “out of box” solution that is both fast and engaging.

Interested to hear your thoughts.