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There are many references from students and teachers that the Moodle platform is very limited, the interface is not simple, there are disadvantages associated with security and saturation of the platform. Also, the platform is not really open because it does not allow interaction between similar courses. The proposal is for the university to support the creation of pages for courses in really open platforms such as WordPress.
Rationale
In WordPress you can create a publication of several authors with different levels of permission to edit, allows the use of widgets, is very easy to use and you do not need to know programming. All the information in WordPress is easy to find in the most popular search engines.
Implementation
The platform already exists and we believe that the university could support us by paying licenses for personal or premium accounts. Another support could be the orientation of teachers in the edition of pages in WordPress.
Challenges
One of the most important challenges is to convince university professors of the advantages of creating their courses on open platforms. Also, when changing Moodle by WordPress, the statistical tools for student evaluation are lost. In WordPress, this work should be done outside the platform.
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Alan Levine
This is a reasonable idea to provide an alternative platform for teaching for the teachers willing to try an open platform that can offer more flexibility than moodle.
Quite a few universities offer installations of WordPress based on it’s Multisite capability https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network which is like what powers WordPress.com and also the New York Times – a central managed single instance of WordPress, with sufficient themes, plugins for individual faculty (and also students) to manage and own their own sites.
You can see examples of this at:
University of Mary Washington http://umwblogs.org/
Thompson Rivers University http://trubox.ca
Virginia Commonwealth University http://rampages.us
and more listed here http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/40-popular-universities-that-are-using-wordpress/
Some other considerations for this proposal would be instructional design and technical support for faculty, training. Many institutions also provide the service for students to use as well