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These are the slides from the "Introduction to Moodle" Webinar hosted by Conor Gilligan on the 16th of January 2014. The full YouTube video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8jYudKXqO4
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Introduction to Moodle LMS
Conor Gilligan, Vice President Workplace Learning
Webanywhere Inc
Agenda
What is Moodle?
Who are the Moodle Partners?
What is the Webanywhere flavor of Moodle?
Examples
Delivery options
Benefits
Open Source
Scalable
Community driven for learning, not for profit
Easy to use and to implement
What is Moodle?
Modular
Object
Orientated
Dynamic
Learning
Environment
Moodle Community
Moodle Community (70+ Million)- Social Constructivism
Moodle‘plugins’
Moodle‘plugins’
Moodle‘plugins’ Moodle
‘plugins’
Moodle Core - Founder Martin Dougiamas
According to Learning Solutions Magazine Moodle is the most popular LMS globally
Moodle - top of the pack
Source: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/111/
Key facts
Very Active Development Team -> Hundreds of developers around the world
Community driven -> 70+ million users
Localized -> 218 countries, 90+ languages
Publically available roadmap
Most innovative LMS globally -> e.g. first LMS to integrate with Open Badges
Core functions
Wikis
Workshop management
Forums / Chat
Quizzes
e-Learning packages
Integration with Rapid Authoring tools (e.g. Articulate)
Mobile friendly, HTML5
Audio / Video
Calendar
Website Links
PDF / Word documents
RSS feeds
Tracking and Reporting
Who are Moodle partners?
Appointed by Moodle directly
Trusted providers of Moodle services
Provide implementation, customization, hosting, support and training - a managed service
Contribute 10% of sales back to Moodle HQ to support the open source project
Who uses Moodle?
What is the Webanywhere flavor?
Webanywhere's flavorMoodle
Examples
Delivery options
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)- No investment in IT infrastructure- Rapid delivery, maximise ROI- Scalable and Robust
Delivered on your servers- Implementation on your hardware- Secure behind a firewall
Conclusion - Benefits
No license fees / open source
Scalable, largest install 2 Million + users
No vendor lock-in
Flexible software
Publically available roadmap
Driven by a community of learners!
Interoperable with other systems
Supports multiple languages
Used by 70+ million learners worldwide
