The Australian Moodle Moot Conference will be held from 17 July to 20 July 2011 in Sydney. This is the official conference for the Australian Moodle Community. My Learning Space will be presenting a session titled: ‘Getting Social with Moodle’. To register for the event, go to the Moodle Moot AU 2011 website.
Increasingly, learning management systems such as Moodle are being used by corporates to provide and track training. This trend is also observed in academic institutions such as schools and universities, government organisations and lastly the not for profit organisations. So which learning solution tops the list?
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Most people associate open source applications as ‘free’. This may be the case in some instances but open source is more than a free application or software. Typically speaking, commercial or proprietary products and their source code are protected by copyrights and licences. That is, the code cannot be copied, changed or modified. As a result, features and qualities are maintained and competitor companies are prevented from using it in competing products. For customers this translates to paying for exclusive licences and software packages.
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The much anticipated Moodle 2.0 learning management system software is now publicly available. There’s plenty to like about Moodle 2.0 for existing 1.9.x users and for those organisations evaluating Moodle as their learning management solution.
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The highly anticipated Moodle 2.0 learning management system software has been released. This is a major release and is now publicly available. It is fair to say Moodle 2.0 has been years in the making. Kudos must go to its generous Community – developers, partners, testers, supporters, teachers, trainers, administrators, researchers and students, who have contributed to this exceptional release.
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Congratulations to Moodle Founder & Lead Developer, Martin Dougiamas – who has just received the Google-O’Reilly Award 2008 for Best Education Enabler. The awards have been presented to individuals for dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source.
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