ABOUT MOODLE
Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It
is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.
Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is
copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy,
use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the
original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the full license for
details and please contact the copyright holder via the Moodle.com
helpdesk if you have any
questions.
Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support an
SQL type database (for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux (for
example Red Hat orDebian GNU). There
are many knowledgeable Moodle Partners to
assist you, even host your Moodle site.
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.
Come moodle with us!
§ Pedagogy
§ Moodle key terms
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