Moodle vs Elgg - Teacher vs Learner-Centered
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Mark at Learning Conversations shares the following chart comparing Moodle and Elgg. After reading it, I’m not entirely sure of the features of either, only that I must confess to a certain disappointment that I have yet to install Elgg in our learning environment. The key difference between the two tools is put succinctly in this way:
Jane is a very effective advocate of Elgg, the open source social networking and social publishing platform. She calls it [Elgg] a social-learning platform, and uses it as the base from which a whole load of activities are started, and to introduce the concepts involved in social learning.
The distinction appears to be made that Moodle is teacher-centered platform for design for “formal, directed learning” while Elgg provides “a space to explore informal, learner-led activities.” This is a powerful distinction to make and might mean for those who think Moodle is too…teacher-oriented that Elgg is an acceptable, walled garden solution (that is, one you can install on school district servers and therefore enjoy “complete” control over rather than one installed, as Dan Rezac suggests, on some third party host or in the cloud, which for most districts I know has yet to become popular or acceptable or come into vogue).
I suppose that the one word that is true of Elgg in both comparisons Mark makes is that it’s confusing to the learner. Why?
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