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THE MARKET
Instructure’s Canvas—An opensource learning management
system featuring code that is primarily
maintained by Instructure, a Sandy,
Utah-based company that creates
LMS platforms. Schools can host the
platform on their own servers for free
or contract with Instructure for the
company to provide the hosting and
support services of Canvas. Experts say
that Instructure, launched in 2008, has
created a more user-friendly LMS than
some of its open-source competitors.
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Moodle—A free, open-source
learning management system
created in 2002 by Martin Dougiamas,
an Australian computer scientist
and educator. It must be hosted on a
school’s server or through an external
Web host to work. Moodle is the original
open-source LMS; it was considered the
most viable open-source alternative
to proprietary products made by
Washington-based Blackboard until
Instructure entered the market.
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Moodleroom’s Joule (owned by
Blackboard)—A Moodle-based
platform that is hosted in a cloudcomputing environment. Although it
is based on the open-source Moodle
platform, Joule provides outside
technical expertise, hosting, and
wraparound support services for a fee.
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Pearson’s OpenClass—A
free, cloud-based learning
management system. Although the
code is proprietary, the Web-based LMS
allows for data input and output and
offers many features of a traditional
LMS, such as scheduling, gradebooks,
the ability to assess students and
report the resulting data, and a
dashboard, which gives teachers and
students an aggregate view of recent
activity and a list of all relevant
classes.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Digital Directions - Winter 2013
Digital Directions - Winter 2013
Contents
Editor’s Note
DD Site Visit
Bits & Bytes
Digital Storytelling
Online Courses Turn on Gaming
Reading in the Age of Digital Devices
Movers & Shakers
State, Federal Leadership Seen as Key to Innovation
Open-Source Opportunities
BYOD Boundaries
E-Cloud Forecast
Digital Shift
Security
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