Free Educational Software

Free Educational Software
By:"Books Llc"
Published on 2010-09 by Books LLC, Wiki Series

E-book Library"Medical"

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Moodle, ATutor, Scratch, Sakai Project, EFront, ELML, Etoys, LAMS, Dokeos, Alice, Edubuntu, CrypTool, Anki, OLAT, Democrasoft, Instructure, Mnemosyne, ILIAS, Claroline, Qimo 4 Kids, Cantor, SchoolTool, ITALC, Flashcard Exchange, REPLAY, KDE Education Project, Elgg, Logisim, Metacoon, IUP Portfolio, OpenSIS, Opencast Matterhorn, SkoleSYS, SchoolForge. Excerpt: Moodle (abbreviation for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). As of October 2010 it had a user base of 49,952 registered and verified sites, serving 37 million users in 3.7 million courses. Moodle was originally developed by Martin Dougiamas to help educators create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content, and is in continual evolution. The Moodle project comprises several distinct but related elements, namely Moodle has several features considered typical of an e-learning platform, plus some original innovations (like its filtering system)). Moodle is very similar to a learning management system. Moodle can be used in many types of environments such as in education, training and development, and business settings. Some typical features of Moodle are Developers can extend Moodle's modular construction by creating plugins for specific new functionality. Moodle's infrastructure supports many types of plug-ins: Many freely-available third-party Moodle plugins make use of this infrastructure. Moodle users can use PHP to author and contribute new modules. Moodle's development has been assisted by the work of open source programmers. This has contributed towards its rapid development and rapid bug fixes. By default Moodle includes the TCPDF library that...

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