This document lists 10 things that Hans de Zwart likes about Moodle, an open-source learning management system. Some of the key points highlighted include: 1. Moodle's philosophy is based on constructivism, constructionism, and social constructivism. 2. Moodle has strong leadership from Martin Dougiamas and an engaged community that is helpful and focused on collaboration. 3. Moodle is highly adaptable and can be used across many different levels of education and organizations with a large user base contributing to solved problems.

1. 10 Things to Like
About Moodle
Hans de Zwart
Stoas Learning

2. A promise in advance...

3. No interactivity and no time
for any questions...

4. I like to talk about:
The Internet Revolution
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Popular science writing
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(E-)Learning
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Philosophy
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Open source software (Linux!)
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Nintendo (DS)
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Juggling
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Civil rights in a digital sociecty
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Myself (as you are starting to notice...)
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6. The title is a shameless ploy

7. The title is a shameless ploy

9. I have been with Moodle
for a quite a long time...

11. Why did I stick with it?

12. Alternatively:
What makes Moodle so special?

13. 10 reasons
(relatively arbitrary)

14. More conceptual
than functional
&
More as a project
than as a piece of software

15. ...

16. 0. Moodle's philosophy

17. Constructivism,
Constructionism and
Social Constructivism

21. The teaching paradox

23. Forums, forums, forums
& the humane interface

24. CC-licensed photo by furryscaly

26. Yochai Benkler: „Technology creates
feasibility spaces for social practice. Some
things become easier and cheaper, others
become harder and more expensive to do or
prevent under different technological
conditions.“
Image: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YochaiBenklerJI6.jpg

27. Course Facilitator:
This is by far the best online
discussion we've had, in terms of
participants responding to eachother.
I think the most likely explanation is
the overall appearance of the Moodle
system (the Teletop facility wasn't
that different, but somehow it didn't
seem to encourage responses).

28. 1. Moodle's Leadership

29. Martin Dougiamas
G'day!
Image source:
http://anamartos.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/antecedentes-moodle/

30. He purposefully chose for
and steered towards
collaboration/shared effort

31. PHP
Community
General helpfulness
Internationizsation

32. Leading by example

34. A recent favourite...

36. Partner network

38. 2. Moodle's License

39. GNU General Public License
Version 2

42. Richard Stallman
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrys/5592200

44. 3. Moodle's Community

46. 940/((24*60)/50) = 32.6

47. Truly exceptional
for the Internet

48. Example 1: Debian

49. A question...

50. The answer:

52. Result:

53. Not very constructive...

54. Example 2: Moodle.org

55. A question...

56. First answer:

57. Another answer:

58. More...

61. Very constructive!

62. It is a community of teachers!

63. 4. Moodle's Adaptability
(scalability/range/one pair of sox fits all/etc)

65. One man band
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22439313@N07/2443261127/

66. Every level of education:
Prenatal
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Adult

67. Multinational corporations:
e.g. Shell, Google, Cisco

68. Large user base means
a lot of problems
have been solved already

69. 5. Moodle's Accessibility
and Diversity

70. A measure of civilisation

72. How do people who cannot
see „view“ a web page?

77. 6. Moodle's Support

81. 7. Moodle's Transparency

85. 8. Moodle's Modularity

88. „Hooks“ for adding
functionality

89. How many can you think of?
(not meant as an interactive exercise, purely to make you think...
I am keeping my promise)

90. Modules
Question types
Blocks
Filters
Glossary types
Database fields
Capabilities
Resource types
Grade reports
Admin reports
Cron
Course formats
Themes
Database presets
Quiz reports
Languages

91. 9. Moodle's Future?

92. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/hansdezwart
Twitter: hansdezwart
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hansdezwart
Blog: http://blog.hansdezwart.info