CUC 2005 A2 Milan Taradi, Sunčana Kukolja Taradi, Marinko V. Marijanović - Free software can satisfa
With the high spreading rate of the Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) in recent years, the delivery of learning contents has gradually shifted from local
desktop to flexible, online-based applications. Moodle is a course management system
(CMS) designed to help teachers to create effective online virtual learning environments
(VLE). It can scale from a single-teacher site to a 40,000-student University. Moodle was
created by Martin Dougiamas, technologist and educationalist – Perth, Western Australia.
The acronym Moodle stands for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment and is a free Open Source software (OSS) program. Its goal is to provide a
set of tools that support an inquiry- and discovery-based approach to online learning.
Moodle is available in a variety of download packages (http://moodle.org/) with different
levels of stability, and with a number of additional modules, add-ons and language packs.
Currently there are more than 4 000 installations in over 125 countries. Handling is easy
and intuitive, community support is great, and there is the possibility of suggesting new
features and working on them in the spirit of open source software.