Why Moodle?

Peter Kilcoyne

Moodle – Key Facts

• History• Open Source• Modularity • Support• Focus on pedagogy• Social Constructivism• Community Driven• Growing international

community

Why has Moodle been so Successful?

• Cost?• Ease of use – flat and like a scheme of work• Functionality• Adaptability• The name?• Support and community

Moodle at Worcester College of Technology• 1000 Courses• 13 000 hits a day across

our Moodle platforms• 2 000 online

assignments• 415 Glossaries• 400 Forums• 485 Quizzes• 49126 Resources

Forum in Moodle

Journal

Glossary

Quiz

Moodle at 4 am

Christmas Day in our Moodle!

How a Moodle course starts and finishes

Why Moodle?

• Reaching students anywhere• Learning at a time, place and pace to suit the

needs of the student• Vast amount of freely available content for

teachers to add to courses• Multimedia Content e.g. YouTube, TED, iTunesU

etc• Great for collaborative learning• Keeping a competitive advantage

Free Content

• www.jorum.ac.uk• http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm• http://www.ocwsearch.com/• http://www.oercommons.org/• www.youtube.com• www.ted.com

E-learning Models

• Simple Moodle Support• Blended learning• Flipping the classroom• Fully on line• m-learning

Any Questions?