This document discusses Moodle, an open-source learning management system. It provides key facts about Moodle such as its history, focus on pedagogy, and growing international community. Data is presented showing high usage of Moodle at Worcester College of Technology, including 1000 courses and 13,000 daily hits across their Moodle platforms. Reasons for Moodle's success include its cost, ease of use, functionality, adaptability and support community. Moodle allows reaching students anywhere and learning at their own pace through various features and integration of multimedia content.

1. Tilahun Mamuye

2. Moodle – Key Facts
 History
 Open Source
 Modularity
 Support
 Focus on pedagogy
 Social Constructivism
 Community Driven
 Growing international
community

5. Why has Moodle been so
Successful?
 Cost?
 Ease of use – flat and like a scheme of work
 Functionality
 Adaptability
 The name?
 Support and community

6. 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

7. Forum in Moodle

8. Journal

9. Glossary

10. Quiz

11. Moodle at 4 am

12. Christmas Day in our Moodle!

14. 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

15. 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

16. E-learning Models
 Simple Moodle Support
 Blended learning
 Flipping the classroom
 Fully on line
 m-learning