A Class on Open Source Courseware

“The Open Source Alternatives
The most widely-known free courseware system is Moodle, which has
the highest market share of any CMS (open or closed) after
Blackboard. Moodle was created at Curtin University in Australia,
and is developed by a tight-knit team still led by the original
creator.

“Moodle is designed around a “social constructionist pedagogy”
education philosophy, emphasizing interaction between students and
between teacher and student. Consequently, although it can easily
handle traditional classroom tasks like assignments and quizzes, it
also incorporates a wide range of built-in communication-oriented
tools, such as wikis and discussion forums. Moodle is implemented
in PHP and can use any SQL database as a backend; although it was
originally (and continues to be) developed on Linux, and operating
system that supports PHP and a database server can be used to host
a Moodle Web site.”

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