> I haven't used Moodle myself so I have no opinion about it. > But it seems very popular. > > For comparison, LiveCode.com's Alexa ranking is very healthy > at 139,248, but Moodle astounds with a ranking of 9,085. > > They must be doing something right. What might we learn from > their successes to make LiveCode as easy a choice for educators?
Moodle is an open source replacement for very expensive courseware solutions like Blackboard. Both of them occupy the education market as education products. In working with other education products, I found that products fall into two camps: - an education product that happens to be delivered using innovative technology - innovative technology that is tailored to the education market The most successful products in the education market seem to be ones made by companies that go 'all in' to education, unless there is overwhelming dominance (often supported by a vendor that can afford to give away their education versions, like Autodesk). Id say at one point, HyperStudio was finely honed for the K-12 market, but I don't think it was ever really marketed strongly enough into that market. Much like corporate sales, selling to K-12 or to higher education you have to sell in the way that makes it easiest for them to buy. And to make them want to buy, you have to be at the events they attend. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
