The world’s open source learning platform

Who uses Moodle?Moodle is the most widely used learning management system in the world. There are currently 80 million registered users worldwide that we know of and potentially a few more millions are accessing Moodle.

In Australia, a large number of leading public and private schools (e.g. Belmont College and St Paul Xavier) and universities (e.g. University of Adelaide and UNSW) are also delivering collaborative and innovative education through Moodle.

In the USA alone, Moodle holds the second largest market share and is used not only in the education sector but also the US Defence Force for learning and collaborating.

Today Moodle is used by organisations of all types and sizes - businesses, charities and the public sector.

Other well known global users of Moodle? The UK Government, Open Universities, World Vision, TAFE, United Nations, Dubai’s oil and gas sectors, Columbia College, NAKOS (emergency services in Norway) - just to name a few out of the millions.

Not a bad achievement for an Australian (Perth based) developed, grown, run and owned company.

Why do 80 million people and organisations worldwide use Moodle? What makes Moodle different?

It has been developed by the world’s best educators, for educators, so that teaching and learning in the online environment works successfully for teachers and students.

In short, people who are passionate about delivering first class education are making sure that the future of education technology is bright and innovative.

In the online world, this translates to a number of tools (or plugins) that are all user-friendly, highly configurable (flexible) and feature-rich. This makes Moodle adaptable to the customised needs of every educator, his/her students and/or any organisation.

Plus, because Moodle is open source, it is supported by a global community of developers. Meaning the best of the very best technical minds are always working together to make Moodle bigger and better.

What is Moodle? A learning management system that connects students and educators around the world in the online environment.

Moodle provides a central space online, where students and staff can collaborate, create content and access a set of tools and worldwide resources anytime, anywhere.

1970’s in the Western Australian desert, Moodle CEO and founder, Martin Dougiamas, studied through school of the air and materials delivered by aeroplanes.

1990s 2008

Martin’s childhood experience prepared him to create an internet-based learning platform.

In 2008 Dougiamas was the winner of the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award in the Education Enabler category.

In 2004 Dougiamas was described by Brent Simpson as “ the Linus Torvalds of the LMS world and his software is the Linux of this software.”

At Curtin University, Martin begins creating Moodle for his Phd research.

Story of Moodle?

20042001

In 2001, he released Moodle (stands for Modular Object-Orientated Dynamic Learning Environment) as an open source system to the world. Within months, Moodle was used worldwide. 80+ Million

users

By 2015, Moodle was the most popular Learning Management System in the world, with the most number of users, boasting well over 80 million users in 222 territories worldwide.

1970s 2015

How to get Moodle…

What you get with Moodle….

Educators, workplaces or businesses interested in Moodle? Download the learning management

system at.

Do you need someone to help make the most of Moodle for your learning

environment? Work with a Moodle Partner, web and online experts around

the world.

Looking to use Moodle right now? Try our MoodleCloud and Moodle for

School options. We host it, update it and develop it with all the plugins you need

so you can create your own Moodle learning site immediately.

Communicate with students and staff where ever they are – The announcements automatically

emails messages to all students and staff on the course.

Control access to different areas – make space for

tutors anywhere, everywhere to communicate with each other as well as students.

Quick way to share documents – create web

pages with information about your course and

provide links to all resources.

Integrate with all other systems in your school –

Our plugins allow for all other existing systems to integrate

easily with Moodle.

Easy access to relevant and useful online resources – provide links directly to the resources that will be most

useful for your students.

Designed to encourage collaborative learning – Moodle makes it easy to model the oxford tutorial

system online

Online assignment handling – online

assignment handling can save time, cost and effort

for everyone involved.

Easy to experiment with new ideas and tools – a

low risk way to incorporate new tools and ideas into

your teaching.

Save time and money – making resources available online can save time and money in photocopying.

Course calendar – use this to flag important events to everyone on your course.

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What people are saying about Moodle?

Forth Valley College

“Since the installment of the VLE, there have been huge cost and resource savings made, as all mandatory training is delivered to staff on Moodle and all recording is automated”.

NAKOS Norway

“The custom Moodle for the NAKOS project has been designed and built as a sharing tool, primarily for emergency medical services outside hospitals…This kind of collaboration, using Moodle as a sharing tool, is the first of this kind in Norway.”

Monash University

“Moodle has provided new opportunities for Monash academic staff to explore a blended learning approach.”

NZ AgriBusiness

“Moodle provides a unique opportunity to construct an innovative agribusiness programme and a ground breaking curriculum that will provide a long term career pathway for many of our students”

World Vision Australia

“Through the training (in Moodle), I have been able to acquire and utilize the knowledge and skills acquired to help train farmers in my community about how they can work together in groups to produce and sell products.”

Mount Sinai

“Moodle allows us to ensure the nurses learn the information and retain it.”

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