Comments on: Google Tries to Compete with Moodle. Good Luck! http://mrpogson.com/2012/09/14/google-tries-to-compete-with-moodle-good-luck/ One man. Closing, all the windows. Sun, 19 May 2013 16:11:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Thorsten Rahn http://mrpogson.com/2012/09/14/google-tries-to-compete-with-moodle-good-luck/#comment-96464 Thorsten Rahn Sat, 15 Sep 2012 14:20:37 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=14267#comment-96464 Google does not try to compete with Moodle or any other learning environment. Moodle is a finished product which usually is installed on your own server. Course Builder is a service that’s deployed in the cloud via Google’s App Engine.

Very different things. And Google doesn’t aim at faculty staff, they aim at people who want to build MOOC platforms. Think Udacity or edX. And ideally this development should take place on Google’s App Engine. Why? Because most MOOC platforms today run on Amazon Web Services.

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