Sharing Moodle Documentation with MariaMoodle

1. About
The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It's also a verb that
describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do
them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way
Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an
online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.
The main text in this document belongs to docs.moodle.org…
Martin Dougiamas’ pictures were taken from Google Images
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2. http://docs.moodle.org/en/Background
Moodle is an active and evolving work in progress. El
Development was started by
Martin Dougiamas, who continues to lead the project.
Martin Dougiamas and
Moodle were born in
Perth Australia.
Take a look to
Dougiamas’ words
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3. “ "I've been working on it, in some way or other, for a long time. It
started in the 90's when I was webmaster at Curtin University of
Technology and a system administrator of their WebCT installation. I
encountered many frustrations with the WebCT beast and developed
an itch that needed scratching - there had to be a better way (no, not
Blackboard :-)
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4. "I also know a lot of people in schools and smaller institutions (and some
big ones!) who want to make better use of the Internet but don't know
where to start in the maze of technologies and pedagogies that are out
there.
I've always hoped there would be a Free alternative that such people could
use to help them move their teaching skills into the online environment.
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5. "My strong beliefs in the unrealised possibilities of Internet-based
education led me to complete a Masters and then a PhD in Education,
combining my former career in Computer Science with newly
constructed knowledge about the nature of learning and
collaboration.
“In particular, I am particularly influenced by the epistemology of social
constructionism - which not only treats learning as a social activity, but
focusses attention on the learning that occurs while actively constructing
artifacts (such as texts) for others to see or use.
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6. It is crucial to me that this software be easy to use
- in fact it should be as intuitive as possible.
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7. "I'm committed to continuing my work on Moodle and on keeping it
Open and Free. I have a deeply-held belief in the importance of
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unrestricted education and empowered teaching, and Moodle is the
main way I can contribute to the realisation of these ideals." - Martin
Dougiamas
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8. A number of early prototypes were produced and discarded
before he released version 1.0 upon a largely unsuspecting
world on
August 20, 2002.
Martin Dougiamas
birthday and Moodle
birthday are the same
day: August 20
Congratulations . . .
MARIAMOODLE
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9. This version was targeted towards smaller, more intimate classes at
University level, and was the subject of research case studies that
closely analysed the nature of collaboration and reflection that occurred
among these small groups of adult participants.
Since then there has been steady series of new releases adding new
features, better scalability and improved performance.
The Summary
in this graphic
is Excelent
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10. As Moodle has spread and the community has grown, more input is being
drawn from a wider variety of people in different teaching situations. For
example, Moodle is now used not only in Universities, but in high schools,
primary schools, non-profit organisations, private companies, by independent
teachers and even homeschooling parents.
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11. A growing number of people from around the Martin Dougiamas is the founder and manager for
world are contributing to Moodle in different the whole Moodle project. Since 2005 there is a
team of people employed over at Moodle HQ in
ways - for more details see the Credits page.
Perth, Australia helping him keep on top of things
(or at least within sight of the top!).
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12. Main developers
Endless thanks from all of us goes to those who have contributed substantial and ongoing amounts of time to writing
Moodle code and helping it grow. These are people who "get" what developing Moodle is all about and without whom
Moodle would be a far lesser thing:
Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Ray Kingdon, Williams Castillo, Petri Asikainen, Henrik Kaipe, Zbigniew Fiedorowicz, Gustav Delius,
Thomas Robb, Janne Mikkonen, Jon Papaioannou (pj), Scott Elliott, Shane Elliott, Roberto Pinna (Bobo), Mike Churchward,
Petr Škoda (skodak), Penny Leach, Martin Langhoff, Urs Hunkler, Michael Penney, Yu Zhang, Helen Foster, Tim Hunt, Sam
Marshall, Jamie Pratt, Nicolas Connault
Core developers
The following people have write access to part or all of cvs:/moodle:
Ann Adamcik, Robert Allerstorfer, Gary Anderson, Iñaki Arenaza, Gordon Bateson, Andrea Bicciolo, Anthony Borrow, Peter
Bulmer, Chardelle Busch, Dongsheng Cai, Wen Hao Chuang, Mike Churchward, Matt Clarkson, Nicolas Connault, Gustav W
Delius, Martin Dougiamas, Shane Elliott, Ethem Evlice, Helen Foster, Nick Freear, Valery Fremaux, Andreas Grabs, Jenny
Gray, Piers Harding, Urs Hunkler, Tim Hunt, Samuli Karevaara, Eloy Lafuente (stronk7), Martín Langhoff, Penny Leach,
François Marier, Dan Marsden, sam marshall, Eric Merrill, Janne Mikkonen, Howard Miller, Jérôme Mouneyrac, David
Mudrák, Mark Nielsen, Rod Norfor, Matt Oquist, Michael Penney, Mathieu Petit-Clair, Pierre Pichet, Roberto Pinna, Dan
Poltawski, Jamie Pratt, Joseph Rézeau, Julian Ridden, koen roggemans, Olli Savolainen, Petr Škoda (škoďák), Alan
Thompson, Jeffery Watkins, Mitsuhiro Yoshida
(List updated 11:39, 20 November 2008 (CST))
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13. An important feature of the Moodle project is moodle.org, which provides a central
point for information, discussion and collaboration among Moodle users, who
include system administrators, teachers, researchers, instructional designers and of
course, developers. Like Moodle, this site is always evolving to suit the needs of
the community, and like Moodle it will always be Free.
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14. In 2003, the company moodle.com was launched to provide additional
commercial support for those who need it, as well as managed hosting,
consulting and other services.
This has now expanded in the Moodle Partner network of over 40
companies world-wide.
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15. For more about our future
plans for Moodle, see the
Future roadmap.
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Future
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