Presentation at elearning update 4 September 2009

1. Why Moodle ® ? Pierre JT de Villiers. CEO, AOSIS

2. Est 1999

3. Online continuing professional development for 20,000 healthcare practitioners www.ecpd.co.za

4. OpenJournals Publishing Portfolio of 20 scholarly journals “ Open access” www.openjournals.net

5. What is Moodle? Learning Management System (LMS) Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Used to create a dynamic online learning site.

7. M odular ( M artin’s) O bject- O riented D ynamic L earning E nvironment

8. moodle (verb): “ improvisational process of doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity.”

12. 2. Popularity of Moodle Registered validated sites: 37,191 Number of countries: 202 Users: 25,365,380 Languages : 70 31 Aug 2009

14. The heartbeat

19. Managing Students

20. Gradebook

24. Amazing community support! Moodle.org  

25. Commercial country based support system Moodle.com   % of turnover to support the Moodle Trust