A Study on e-Learning System - A Comparison between Blackboard and Moodle

Abstract

With the development of modern information technology and the increases of demand for building and maintaining ongoing capabilities, e-Learning has played as an important role of all the technologies in supporting knowledge management. For the past quarter century, e-Learning and e-Learning system have developed very fast. Among them, Blackboard systems were the first attempt at integrating “cooperating” software modules in e-learning. While Moodle is an open source software of e-Learning with the flexible of functions that allow organization to easily adopt as an e-Learning system for their needs. The goal of both systems was to achieve the flexible and provide a good training education system. However, they have many differences. The purpose of this study is to understand the e-Learning system and its development and to compare the usage and usefulness between Blackboard system and Moodle system. By the the managers can also have an overview about those systems in order to decide the most appropriate e-Learning system for their organization.