[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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