Epic plc, one of the UK's largest e-learning companies, publishes a monthly opt-in Newsletter called "epic thinking". This month's edition has a glowing assessment of Moodle which includes an interesting if slightly speculative assessment of the number of learners worldwide supported by each of the 5 most used VLEs, and number of installations of each:
| Installations | Users served | |
| SumTotal | 1,500 | 17m |
| Saba * | 1,100 | 15m |
| Blackboard/WebCT | 3,700 | 12m |
| Moodle | 19,000 | 7.7m |
| Skillport | 1,200 | 5m |
* Saba figures represent Saba Enterprise Suite, of which the LMS is one component
Just a note on this:
which includes an interesting if slightly speculative assessment of the number of learners
the Moodle numbers are gathered from actual site data, when you install or upgrade there is a button in the administrator's area that asked you to register your site and send your raw numbers to Moodle. These are then automatically displayed here:
http://www.moodle.com/stats
Since Moodle is also Martin Dougiamas's PHD thesis project, he's pretty particular about accurate numbers;-).
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Thanks Michael. I'm not particularly doubting the 19,000 Moodle installations. But I do think that the proportion of these that are live and active is pretty speculative. And is the number of learners generated from an active learner list, or from the number of learner accounts on a system? (This same question can of course be asked in relation to data for any LMS.) Seb 6 January 2007.
Posted by: Michael Penney | 06/01/2007 at 04:56