::fibreculture:: WebCT, Open Source and Beyond

[Andrew Murphie]

Hi FC¹ers,

haven¹t heard much for a while. This is an old chestnut ­ though it¹s still
roasting at various unis, and in fact the fire¹s getting pretty hot of late.
I¹ve been asked to perhaps justify why I¹m not using WebCT for course
development. I have used it a little in the past but am now using blogs,
wikis and ... well, the web itself ... so I¹m interested in pointers to
articles pulling WebCT (and similar) apart. There is Tama Leaver¹s great
piece in our own FC Journal of course. And personally, I have been lucky
enough to come into contact with the work of Jacques Daignault and Renée
Fountain on Open Source and education in Quebec. Adrian Miles has done lots
of work on this as well. But where are the big, major crits of WebCT and
proprietary software and systems in education?

Any leads would be much appreciated. Together with any discussion of the
current state of things.

regards to all,
Andrew
-- 
"I thought I had reached port; but I seemed to be cast
back again into the open sea" (Deleuze and Guattari, after Leibniz)

Dr Andrew Murphie - Senior Lecturer
School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Sydney,
Australia, 2052
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