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Fast Facts 2
CHOOSING A LEARNING PLATFORM
Some schools have invested, with a business partner, in the design of their own Learning Platform.
Some schools are using Moodle, an open source Learning Platform .
Some schools have chosen from a range of commercial providors.
Kaleidos from Research Machines.
UniServity
Fronter
Some schools have experimeted with www.think.com the free Learning Platform from Oracle.
Many schools are waiting on advice from their Local Education Authority.
Some LEAs have chosen to purchase a Learning Platform and implement it across the authority.
e.g. the London Grid for Learning (LGFL) and Fronter.
It may be that there is no 1-size-fits-all solution to Learning Platforms and over the next five years we will see a proliferation of different Learning Platforms in and across schools in the same LEAs.
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