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