by Kyle Rokes, Santa Barbara Community College Channels
Blackboard is also expensive, costing the college $208,000 a year in licensing and other fees to those same owners. Moodle, used by an increasing amount of instructors on campus, is open-sourced, so not only can anyone use it for free, but also any user can submit proposals on how to change or improve it. And instead of Blackboard’s corporate for-profit model, Moodle is made by educators for educators, and doesn’t cost a penny. Hersh said, in theory, the $208,000 can be used for other things, “like investing in the college’s future.” He said that would be “a wiser investment in resources.”
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