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发表于 2009-01-11 13:27 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

原文：http://www.datasystemsplus.net/why-im-giving-up-on-moodle

简单翻译（英文不好，只能读懂大概）：

离开moodle的原因：
虽然moodle是一个优秀的课程管理系统，并且存在着巨大的商机。但我还是选择了离开它，原因就是：不能在一个课程中控制学生的成长进程。moodle的课程体系不是一个线性的过程，更像是moodle论坛上的基于信仰的一个产物。

一个新手主管着一个国家课程管理的项目，需要一个线性的教学过程，比如必须完成内容A之后，才能进行B的学习。于是他把这个要求反映到moodle的论坛上去。

但是不幸的是，他得到了权威者们的蔑视，说他的这个提议就像是在一个windows的用户在PerlMonks.com上提问的perl的问题。

虽然moodle提供了很多接口去实现“内容的查询”，但是这些接口不能用在模块中。以至于每次模块更新时这些接口都失效。

离开moodle还有另外一个原因：对SCORM支持不好。moodle对SCORM的支持是将课程内容放在一个体积臃肿的文件中，这是一个不现实的做法。

----------------------原文如下------
Why I’m Giving Up On Moodle

by Carl on April 28, 2008

Moodle is great. There, you Moodle fans out there, I’ll give you that- It’s a great platform, full of options and customizability, even some ecommerce potential. I’m developing pay-to-learn sites and am working on a workable platform. But I’m giving up on using Moodle, and here’s why: no control over the user’s progression thru a course. Moodle was designed from the outset to allow students to peruse a course in a non-linear fashion- it’s almost a religious belief with the Moodle-ers on the forums.

One poor Moodle forum newbie posted a message with his desire that he be able to control a user’s linear path through a Moodle course. He was designing courses for a state-sponsored certification exam, and the state agencies want to see an online course where access to Topic B is not possible without first successfully completing Topic A. Not exactly on the cutting edge of current education wisdom, but that is just the way it is.

Our hapless forum newbie was given a set of responses from the Moodle gurus laced with the scorn normally reserved for a Windows user posting a Perl problem on PerlMonks.com. One guru compared a linear learning path to a ‘mindless learning rat maze’. Ugh. So goes the entreprenuer’s voyages into the world of open source. If you want to use open source products for profit, be ready to swim on your own.

There are hacks available to implement ‘content locking’ in Moodle - but the hacks are not supported modules, and tend to break with each Moodle update. I never could get the hack to work with SCORM modules at all.

The other reason we are not going to use Moodle for our learning sites is the spotty support of SCORM offered by Moodle. With Moodle, your only real option if you want to use SCORM with any control over access to content is to post your course as one, big-ass SCO file. Not a workable solution.

In the coming weeks I’ll be reporting on our experiences with Claroline, another open-source learning package. It has a neat feature called ‘Learning Paths’ that can implement locks - as well as very easy and trouble-free SCORM support.