How to sell a migration to Moodle — by Michael Feldstein
The folks at Wesleyan University have a blog up that is a stellar example of how to evangelize for an LMS platform to faculty when you’re facing the front end of a migration.1 For starters, their FAQ is rich with information, including analysis by peer schools.
Here’s a sample:
Why are so many schools switching to Moodle?
While we cannot speak for all the other schools, we imagine their motivation is similar to ours—Moodle is more cost-effective than Blackboard and we have more control over it. A plethora of independent research on student and faculty satisfaction with course management systems show that users like Moodle as well as or better than Blackboard.