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Dr Chuck is one of the top professors on Coursera, and I understand he's mostly using the money he makes on coursera to fund Sakai as a passion project.
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I tried Open EdX once, it was unbelievably difficult to get it up and running, despite it being a Django app and me being pretty experienced with Django.
I work for a company that customizes and runs Open edX and you're not wrong.
One reason is that is is really tough to define what an LMS does since it can serve various use cases. Most people who are not familiar with LMSs think of Blackboard/Moodle/Canvas/EdX and mostly for academic/schools. There is a whole set of industries for LMSs like B2B training, HR/Compliance/Continuing Ed/Healthcare etc. Then you have Product companies who just need to train their customers, create brand recognition…
There is a lot of untapped potential here. I was close to early enterprise adopters of Articulate which was a much more limited product in the mid-2000s. Pharma had HQ training (yearly compliance plus some specialist courses), but field sales has regular training and updates which was a full time production effort. A single LMS could have worked across the org as long as it had enough of the nudging and reporting whi…
I've never worked at a company where they've even been easy to use (for common use cases) or cross-browser compatible. Statistically, as a consultant who went through a lot of them, I feel like I should have.
Is it that HR is a cost center and so the market is price-dominated? Or that there's so much regulatory minutiae that change is glacial? Or something else entirely?
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Thanks for the link. IIUC Richie is more of a CMS for courses and related info that can integrate with an LMS like edX, but it's not an LMS itself.
Hey! I'm one of the maintainers of Richie. That's exactly right, it's meant to be a web portal in front of one or more LMS.
I wrote an open source scorn sequencing engine which is really at the center of an LMS and my co-worker wrote a really nice looking content editor. But we were working as government contractors in the ADL office and it got squashed because there was legal concern that the government would be seen as competing with private industry.
Question for people who seem to have experience in the space: why are corporate HR LMS / annual certification tools so universally bad? I've never worked at a company where they've even been easy to use (for common use cases) or cross-browser compatible. Statistically, as a consultant who went through a lot of them, I feel like I should have. Is it that HR is a cost center and so the market is price-dominated? Or tha…
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> incredibly complicated to run because it's not built as an open source product Would you suggest it as an option to a team with limited devops budget? The documentation seems reasonable comprehensive. Do you have a brief summary of issues? https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-installing-configuri...
I'm not an ops guy, but I know it was a constant source of trouble in our team and a large challenge to keep it running smoothly. For us it took 2-3 experienced engineers something like 2 years to have a stable and smoothly running production environment at scale. If you start from scratch today things may have gotten better. You might want to look at https://github.com/overhangio/tutor , I know Régis has been hard a…
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How does it compare to Moodle/Canvas in terms of intended use? I have a contact who is looking for an LMS for teacher education, and kolibri looks probably appropriate.
Unlike most other learning platforms, Kolibri supports users that don't necessarily have fast or consistent internet access. While it can be hosted in the cloud, it is designed to run on a local network so that the experience is fast and responsive, and is specific for the needs in places with limited internet. Content and data can be synced to other locations as-needed. See also https://kolibri.readthedocs.io/