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Along with our belief in open source technologies, Moodlerooms believes in shared, open standards. Most of us have experienced technology with closed standards. Maybe you've written a document in one word processing application and tried to open it in another, but your file looks like gibberish. Company A has NOT wanted Company B's system to read the file format, because Company A wants you to buy their word processor. While this is good business for Company A, it is not a good experience for the client. In education, Moodlerooms thinks software companies should be making it easy for teachers and learners to be sharing and trading good ideas.
One of the value-adds of Moodlerooms supporting your Moodle projects is that we believe in open standards. We do more than voice our opinions: our CTO, Stuart Sim, is an active volunteer to open-standards organizations like IMS and OKI , which focus considerable time and effort on interoperability. We also make a point out of creating services and products that strip vendor-lock from the vocabulary of schools. We know that if enough people who care about education demand open standards, Company A and Company B will need to learn to "play nice" too!
Open source is a great beginning in changing the marketplace around educational tools mired in the pursuit of profit and vendor lock-in, but coupling it with open standards, we know Moodlerooms can: - Change the Conversation from Closed to Open
- Drive Down the Barriers to Adopting Good Learning Tools
- Create Commodity Markets of Open Competition
- Encourage Participation by Proprietary Companies
Our business approach may not be traditional, but we are speaking with clients every day who know that our motives are to give them access to all of the tools that will allow them to be great learners and teachers.
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