Moodle

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Definition

Moodle is a popular LMS that is based on socio-constructivist concepts.

The reasons for its popularity is in DSchneider's opinion the facts that:

• the underlying teaching model comes very close to the way "it is done" in a typical anglo-saxon graduate presential course.
• the system is quite stable and not too difficult to use

DSchneider doubts that a typical course found on a randomly chosen Moodle installation is truly socio-constructivist. They most definitly not very constructionist, e.g. on-line student activity is often reduced to forum activities and uploads.

Links

http://moodle.org/

References

• Dougiamas, M. & Taylor, P.C., Interpretive analysis of an internet-based course constructed using a new courseware tool called Moodle, Curtin University of Technology, [1]

• Philosophy (retrieved 16:40, 20 April 2006 (MEST))