[Xerte] Re: Cost/price for Xerte

Thu May 1 12:08:15 BST 2014

Was it a bitnami one click installer, or the usual process?

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Sheppard, Nick <N.E.Sheppard at leedsmet.ac.uk
> wrote:

> I've struggled to get xerte formally supported by my institution - still
> working on it! I'm currently stuck with a firewalled dev system...I wanted
> to use it at #oer14 so my colleague and I installed it on
> reclaimhosting.com which cost us 12 dollars and took us about 15 minutes.
>
> For more on reclaimhosting.com see this paper also at #oer14:
>
> http://www.medev.ac.uk/oer14/91/view/
>
> Nick
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
> Sent: 01 May 2014 11:47
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Cost/price for Xerte
>
> In fairness, a learning technologist wouldn't need to be employed anything
> like full time to make Xerte Toolkits work for your organisation. It would
> be a tiny fraction of their time. There are lots of organisations like ours
> who have paid for a consultant to set it up and manage any maintenance but
> we're talking about a day or two here and there at the most and we get a
> lot of use from toolkits.
>
> Whatever tool you use the overhead will always be getting hard pressed
> teaching staff to learn new skills and dare to teach differently. But
> invest in some decent training opportunities and you'll find it's a very
> attractive cost benefit ratio.
>
> Alistair
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fred Riley
> Sent: 01 May 2014 10:09
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Cost/price for Xerte
>
> G'day yerself :)
>
> As with all Open Source systems, the costs are in humans, not the
> software. In the UK, if you wanted a Learning Technologist to install,
> configure and administer Xerte, then advocate its use in blended learning,
> the going rate would be £32k-£37k. For a consultant, maybe £250-£300/day
> (an ex-colleague of mine at Heriot-Watt, who ran her own e-learning
> consultancy, would charge that). I'm sure that you could translate those
> numbers into Aussie dollars.
>
> I'd say that Xerte Toolkits is pretty easy to set up, as an administrator
> - the costs in terms of time and money would be in getting academics and
> teachers to use it constructively and to incorporate it into their learning
> and teaching, hence the need for a Learning Technologist or similar.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth - I'd be interested to read the views of others on
> the human costs, not least as I'm kinda interested in e-learning
> consultancy myself... ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> Fred
> www.fredriley.org.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Douglas Brown
> Sent: 01 May 2014 09:02
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte] Cost/price for Xerte
>
> Gidday fellow Xerte users,
>
> We are exploring the use of various software tools and we like what we've
> seen so far towards suggesting it as a tool to enhance our Uni's
> Moodle-based offerings.
>
> I'd love to get your impressions on the costs per designer/developer and
> other related costs and especially if you have any suggestions or comments
> on incorporating Xerte.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas Brown
> Online Learning Designer
> University of New England (Parramatta), NSW Australia
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