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The history of Moodle

15 January, 2016 - 09:49

Moodle was created by Martin Dougiamas while working on a postgraduate degree at the Curtin University of Technology in Australia. In 2002, he was a Webmaster of a university and a system administrator of WebCT installation. He started to develop Moodle to solve some problems with WebCT. The original version was targeted for small classes and a case study, but steadily many features were added by developers and other contributors from all over the world (Martin, et al., 2004; Dougiamas, 2004 and Koh, 2006).

Abhijeet Chavan and Shireen Pavri have said, “Moodle was born out of a need to scratch an itch. Frustrated by proprietary alternatives, Martin, then a PhD candidate in Education with a background in computer science, started Moodle in 1999. In 2002, Version 1.0 was released. Since then, Moodle has continued to evolve at a rapid rate, managed by Martin and propelled by an active world-wide community of users and developers” (Chavan, and Pavri, 2004). The Moodle Company “Moodle.com” has been providing managed hosting and consulting services since 2003. Currently, Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 1,077,969 users on this site, speaking 86 languages in 212 countries around the world (Al-Ajlan, et al., 2008).