Moodle
Published on 26 Sep 2006 at 8:37 am.
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Moodle is an open source e-learning platform (also known as a Course Management System (CMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)). It has a very large user base with 13,909 registered sites in 158 countries with 4,972,676 users in 455,685 courses (as of August 2, 2006) [1].
Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that many people can develop additional functionality, and development is undertaken by a globally diffuse network of commercial and non-commercial users, spearheaded by the Moodle company based in Perth, Western Australia.
Moodle was the creation of Martin Dougiamas, a former WebCT administrator at Curtin University, with postgraduate degrees in Computer Science and Education. Martin’s later Ph.D. studies examined “The use of Open Source software to support a social constructionist epistemology of teaching and learning within Internet-based communities of reflective inquiry” and this research has strongly influenced some of the design of Moodle, providing pedagogical aspects missing from many other e-learning platforms.
The word Moodle is actually an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, although originally the M stood for “Martin”, named after Martin Dougiamas, the original developer. [6]
To moodle is also a verb of unknown origin and infrequent use that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course.
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A Great Keyboard Trick
Published on 30 Mar 2006 at 1:45 pm.
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Now maybe all of you knew this, but just in case some of you don’t, try it. It works.
This is for everyone whose eyesight isn’t what it used to be. It’s very useful when trying to read small e-mail print (especially in the early hours).
If you hold down the Ctrl key on your key board and turn the small wheel in the middle of your mouse, the print size will change – it will either get larger or smaller – depending on which way you turn the wheel.
Pass this on to other friends who may find it very useful….I’m glad I was told.
Are the Internet and the World Wide Web the Same Thing?
Published on 25 Mar 2006 at 6:39 am.
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The Internet, or simply the Net (more…)