Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also know as a Learning Management System (LMS), or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. To work, it needs to be installed on a web server somewhere, either on one of your own computers or one at a web hosting company. It is a FREE web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
The focus on the Moodle project is always on giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning. There are many ways to use Moodle.
- Moodle has features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
- Many institutions use it as their platform to conduct fully online classes, while some use it to augment traditional classes known as blended learning.
- Many of the users love to use the activity modules - such as forums, databases, and wikis; to build collaborative communities of learning around their subject matter while others may prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver content to students and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.
In an article by James Mitchell, Moodle and Its Potential for the Public High School Classroom, Mitchell looks at the aspects of using Moodle in the classroom with the challenges of today's public education and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001. Mitchell concludes that Moodle is a "very viable option" to providing learning materials online with easy to manage software and that most schools are satisfied with the results of the software.
Mitchell, James (2007). Moodle and Its Potential for the Public High School Classroom. Retrieved from http://mrjmitchell.com/portfolio/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/690_lit_review_moodle_jmitchell.pdf
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