[Building Sakai] Sakai vs Moodle (again, sorry)

[Diego del Blanco Orobitg]

Hi at all!

 

As you know Samoo is a SCA and we are doing a lot of effort showing Sakai in
the world (just now I'm in Colombia having meetings with the most important
universities here and they are really interested). Sakai is really unknow in
a lot of places.

 

I'm really tired about hearing always the same question. I'm sure you can
imagine it.

 

Why Sakai is better that Moodle?

 

I have a lot of answers about this, and I try to be honest too. Moodle is
not a bad solution, but. for me Sakai has a lot of advantages (mainly in
Universities world) .

 

I try to explain all of them and then they always tell me, please, can you
send me a document explaining this, with differences between Sakai and
Moodle.

 

Well I'm sure all the others SCA have to hear the same question and I'm sure
other "Sakaigers" have to explain this a lot of times so I'd like to open a
conversation with you and recopilate information about this question and if
possible data to create a document explaining all this. I will configure it
and publish it for the community, of course, for your free use. (Other SCA
included, because our common objective must be expand Sakai). No more than 2
or 3 pages. I want something clear and quick. (I will ask after this a
little help for English improvement)

 

I can begin with some generic questions that you can discuss or detail:

 

1.       Sakai foundation is not an enterprise and it's created by
universities for universities. Moodle is created by an enterprise.

2.       Most of the best universities in the world use Sakai or have been
involved in the Sakai development (Standford, Indiana, MIT, Michigan, Yale,
Oxford, Cambridge, Berkeley. well I know I miss a lot here. but you know
well the list) In the TOP 20 universities in the world more than a half use
Sakai, and no more than 2 or 3 use Moodle ( the rest BB and others)

3.       Sakai SOAP architecture for integration and communication with
other systems is absolutely more complete than in Moodle

4.       If J2EE is and advantage or not maybe depends of the point of view
so I don't consider this as a real clear advantadge. but from my personal
point of view. it's

5.       Role definitions in Sakai are really more powerful and flexible
than in Moodle.

6.       Usability. I have studies about this that show than Sakai obtains
more score than Moodle (I will put it in the final document)

 

Please add some more.

 

I will be writing more, but this is the beginning. 

 

I'd like people that uses both platforms to talk about Sakai's features not
available in Moodle and as I want to be ready for that, I'd like you to say
Moodle advantages too and features not available in Sakai. I prefer a honest
report than a partial one that can be discussed with some Moodle arguments.

 

David (Roldan), I know you have a book about all this, you compared both
systems in a really impartial way. Your help will be welcome here for this
little document.

 

Thanks in advance to all. I think this can be very useful.

 

Diego del Blanco

Samoo

 <http://www.samoo.es> www.samoo.es

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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