Lessons from VLE (SD Lee)

• Bodington (Weblearn) is Oxford's centrally-supported VLE

• • Matched needs of University (and happens to be open source)
  • VLE team has 5 FTE
  • • expensive in other circumstances
  • Direct costs to Oxford has been minimal – saving £150K per annun
  • • Taking advantage of open source development model and commitment to open standards
    • Attracted funding from JISC etc to develop functionality, interoperability etc
    • • keeping pace with e-learning framework

• Sustainable?

• • • Oxford committed to maintenance and standards-based, open source, modular approach suits Oxford and funding bodies
    • Community building for Bodington (and Moodle) increasing
    • • looking at integrating best from Bodington, Moodle and interaction with portal frameworks
      • VLE <> VRE <> VE?

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