[Squeakland]
[ANN] Moodle: a new "course management system" (CMS) - using Open
Source, PHP, Social Constructionist Pedagogy
Darius Clarke
darius at inglang.com
Tue Sep 16 13:36:24 PDT 2003
Here's some interesting new course management system (CMS) (not Squeak) that
tries to address this community's need for a CMS that agrees with its
constructionist pedagogy.
http://moodle.org/doc/?frame=features.html
"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to
help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are
sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning
Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is
a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy.
"Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web
sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social
constructionist framework of education.
"Moodle will run on any computer that can run PHP, and can support many types
of database (particularly MySQL).
"The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education
theorists. It's also a verb 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. Anyone who uses Moodle is a
Moodler."
Perhaps this community already has an unexpressed opinion of any perceived need
or lack of need for a "course management system" such as this.
Cheers,
Darius
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