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The definition of Moodle

15 January, 2016 - 09:49

An important feature of the Moodle is the Moodle.org web site, which provides a central point for information, discussion and collaboration among Moodle users, who include system administrators, teachers, researchers, instructional designers and of course, developers. Like Moodle, this site is always evolving to suit the needs of the community. Moodle is now used not only in universities, but also in high schools, primary schools, non-profit organizations, private companies, and by independent teachers and even home-schooling parents. A growing number of people from around the world are contributing to Moodle in different ways (Dougiamas, 2011; Yuuichi et al., 2006, and Dougiamas, 2004).

Moodle is based on Social Constructionist Pedagogy (SCP), which is a learner-oriented philosophy and most VLE modules are based on it. They are largely concerned with how course contents are delivered, in which students are involved in constructing their own knowledge (Graf, et al., 2005 and Cole, 2005). The learner-oriented philosophy of learning is that learners actively construct new knowledge by tinkering and experimenting, and they learn even more by explaining what they have learned to others and by adopting a more subjective stance to the knowledge being created. These ideas run parallel to the way open-source development works, in which the developers also are often users, everyone is free to tinker with the software and code is re-constructed or adapted, peer-reviewed and refined by the means of open discussion (Berry, 2005 and Chavan, et al., 2004).