The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) provides continuing education courses, on-site seminars, and regional conferences for elected school board members. In an effort to enhance the delivery mechanisms for training, TASB sought alternative modes for providing training to its members through an online Learning Management System (LMS).
After conducting research on LMS applications with the greatest market share among organizations of size similar to TASB, we decided that Moodle met our requirements best.
The decision to implement Moodle as the LMS to house online content considered many factors: Low cost and no licensing fee, a wide range of features and flexibility, the large network of Moodle users, ability to incorporate "add-on" modules to enhance functionality, interest among other state school board associations to develop a similar solution on the same platform, and the availability of a third-party vendor (Remote-Learner) to provide hosting...