My new job will not use Moodle. This transition should make great writing fodder in the future Here's the Moodle implementation - start to finish: Implementing Moodle Moodle from Local Host to DNS Convincing the Boss Convincing the Boss - the Demo Courses Convincing the Boss - a Successful First Benchmark Next Step - Convincing Senior Staff Arguments for Open Source in a Corporate Environment Finding Talent Right in Front of You Stupid Moodle Tricks - Setting Up LDAP Moodle Human Issues - User Accounts Decisions Part 1 - User Accounts

Moodle is well known for a slight lack of design flair in the out-of-the-box theme packs. Often, though, we'll need to redesign the overall look and feel of a Moodle site. Moodle is a very complex application, with many different parts of the interface that need styling. Secondly, remember that That's fine. They still work.

In his post, George describes Moodle as being one of many "content-centric" systems. Martin Dougiamas (founder of Moodle) then comments: Moodle itself is actually activity-centric. Facilitators using Moodle start with an empty course container and use a handy collection of tools/apps/modules to build a collection or series of Via Jane Hart . George Siemens is discussing whether the future of learning is in Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Social Networking Systems .

They are usually fans of Moodle, even if they’ve not used it (but have talked [...] Blackboard Blackboard Moodle myBU PLN Technology University 2.0 As a user of Blackboard at Bournemouth University I have been involved in various discussion about it’s merit or lack of). These are usually started by someone who doesn’t like Blackboard, and probably hasn’t used it much either (or even tried?).

And “in times like these…” Why pay for a pricey LMS when you can Moodle or Drupal or Sakai ? Why do companies continue to pay huge dollars for products that are now being offered for free? Moodle and other open source products have huge communities behind them. There’s no vendor who creates Moodle per say. Richard Nantel of Brandon Hall recently posted about average LMS prices . A ‘low-cost’ LMS starts at an average of $58K.

Moodle does a lot of things great, but site wide reporting and bulk user management are definitely not included in those great things. If you are a Moodle administrator for an organization I am sure you know the pain of having to go into each course site to produce grade reports for multiple courses. In my case, I have to send out a weekly report listing every users grades in every course they have taken on Moodle. This means I have to go into each course site and export a grade report to an excel spreadsheet and then merge all of those separate spreadsheets into one big grade report.

Moodle A Comparison of Satisfaction with Online Teaching and Learning Tools Bert Bos Kathy D. 8,600 each year) Used at HSU since 2001 Over $1 million spent each year in the CSU on Blackboard licenses What is Moodle? “Open source” (free!) Learning Management System (LMS) software Customizable by programming staff Flexible for the instructor and developer Supported by programmers world-wide The Question ... Can free software Blackboard vs. Munoz , Professor, Humboldt State University Joan Van Duzer , Instructional Technologist,

In all the time that I've written about Moodle, I've never really written about Moodle, if you see what I mean. Open source e-learning development 11: Moodle is a post from: E-Learning Curve Blog ...Tags: Tags: LCMS Moodle constructivist learning environment e-learning learning technology principles of constructivism social learnin I'll remedy that today.

I thought I knew about most of the cool tools out there for developing multimedia instructional materials but was proved wrong after reading " Moodle 1.9 This is one in a series of books from Packt Publishing that will help you learn the ins and outs of Moodle . If you're looking to take your Moodle courses to the next level with easy to use multimedia tools then " Moodle 1.9 Multimedia " by João Pedro Soares Fernandes. Multimedia " is a great place to start.

No doubt this is due to the prominence of Moodle which appears to be breaking out in to mainstream consciousness - popular British computing weekly MicroMart is even carrying an article extolling its virtues this week. Moodle is of course THE open source e-learning item of the moment*1. Tags: open source marketplace tools Moodle software LMSs PLEs I've recently become a fan of Open Source Living , a site that rounds up the best of the many and varied OS apps that are out there. I find it rather more useful day-to-day than the more far-ranging but rather bewildering