The Estonian e-learning center a reply to @mrdatahs
This is basically a reply to Christopher Dawson’s post on his implementation of a Learning Management System in his district in the U.S.
He’s in charge of implementing (by yesterday as he says).Chris, I tried to reply on ZDnet but it required registration, and I’m too lazy for that, so I decided to write my reply as a blog post and put the reply as a link to your initial twitter post. (sounds more complicated, I know, but somehow for me it’s easier) You should check out the implementation of the Estonian state e-learning initiative. I use it everyday for my classes in the Technical University.www.e-ope.ee they mostly use moodle. One moodle for the whole country (1.4 mil inhab.) That’s right, one single, centralized moodle for all learning institutions (public and private) in the whole country. Most courses require a registration key that each teacher gives to their students. Assignments, grades, wikis, blogs, tests, discussions. Everything you can imagine is online. It helps that a) Estonia is a relatively small country, b) the population is fairly IT minded and c) there probably was a clean slate to start with, and not many legacy systems around. It might have been that the largest teaching institution (the Technical Uni.) was using it, and it then got extended to all the other. I took the liberty to attach their e-learning development center strategy paper to this blog post. Give it a glance, maybe you’ll find some good ideas there that might help you.