Why use moodle?
This is a good question “Why use Moodle at all?” Classes have been running for thousands of years without the use of computers and the Web. While traditional face-to-face lectures and tutorials can still be highly effective, supporting this teaching with a range of online tools opens up new possibilities for learning. Moodle’s ‘tool set’ includes discussion forums, wikis, quizzes, tools to upload and share resources. Whilst these tools exist elsewhere as separate programs, Moodle conveniently packages them into an single, integrated, user-friendly environment. Currently there is a lot of research into how to effectively combine online learning and face-to-face lectures in what is called “blended learning”. Moodle is also “open source”, which simply means that users have access to the source code of the software. You can look inside and see how it works, tinker with it, or use parts of the code for your own projects. Why is this important? Well, just as one can download Moodle for free,
