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

[Adam Marshall]

There's some useful blurb here: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/index.xml?ID=questions - feel free to copy the text into your document.

Adam

From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Diego del Blanco Orobitg
Sent: 14 June 2012 19:28
To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Building Sakai] Sakai vs Moodle (again, sorry)

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







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