What is Moodle?
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Jason Neiffer is the Curriculum Director of Montana Digital Academy, which offers nearly 50 online courses to students throughout Montana for free in its first year. Moodle is an open source learning management system that is used by over 45,000 sites and 32 million users worldwide to create online courses. When implementing Moodle, planning, training, and preparing for hardware needs are critical to ensure successful adoption.
What is Moodle?
- 1. Moodle Jason Neiffer Curriculum Director Montana Digital Academy http://www.montanadigitalacademy.org http://www.techsavvyteacher.com http://www.neiffer.com Twitter: @techsavvyteach & @neiffer http://www.workshophandouts.com/whatismoodle
- 2. About ME! :) 13 year classroom teacher UM doctoral student First Curriculum Director of MTDA Wannabe keynoter Shameless Self-Promotion: Jason N-E-I-F-F-E-R http://www.neiffer.com
- 3. About Montana Digital Academy Nearly 50 courses 2010-2011 Free for its first year AP and unique electives Partnered with Montana school districts and the University of Montana
- 4. “What the h*#% is a Moodle?”
- 7. just 8 years old free, open source software supported by either the community OR commercial partners supporting, as of January 2010, 45,000 sites, 32 million users and 3 million courses Moodle is...
- 8. Moodle utilizes... Themes Plugins and extensions Several commercial companies, called “Moodle Partners”
- 9. In Montana Adopted by dozens of school districts Recently adopted by the University of Montana, Montana Tech, UM-Western and UM College of Technology-Helena
- 10. Case Study: MTDA
- 14. Implementation Planning critical...think before you act! Training critical...support your users! Expect adoption and plan for hardware needs!
- 15. Kick the tires! Key to School http://www.keytoschool.com Global Classroom http://www.globalclassroom.us/ NineHub http://ninehub.com/
- 16. Your questions? Jason Neiffer Curriculum Director Montana Digital Academy http://www.montanadigitalacademy.org http://www.techsavvyteacher.com http://www.neiffer.com Twitter: @techsavvyteach & @neiffer http://www.workshophandouts.com/whatismoodle