Ken Udas and I had our half-day workshop proposal accepted for EDUCAUSE 2006. The workshop is called A Level Playing Field: How to Evaluate Open and Proprietary LMSs Using the Same Criteria, and it will be drawing heavily on the BRR framework. Here’s the description of the workshop:
When selecting a Learning Management System, decisions are often based on generalizations about the advantages and disadvantages of Open Source software relative to commercial options. Without an appropriate evaluation model, critical strengths or weaknesses of individual Open Source alternatives may be overlooked resulting in an incomplete comparison of the available options.
In this hands-on workshop, attendees will practice applying the Organizational Readiness Rating (ORR) model, which is based on a model
developed by Carnegie Mellon University and SpikeSource, to the domain of learning management software selection. Attendees will engage in a facilitated software evaluation process of three learning management systems. including both commercial and open source options. They will also discuss the ORR model in relation to some of the characteristics oftheir home organizations that were uncovered during the evaluation process and how those characteristics may impact software selection.
