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<TITLE>Moodle Docs: Background</TITLE>
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<H2>Background</H2>
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<P>Moodle is an active and evolving work in progress.</P>
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<P>I've been working on it, in some way or other, for several years. It started
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in the 90's when I was webmaster at <a target=_top href="http://www.curtin.edu.au/">Curtin University
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of Technology</a> and a system administrator of their WebCT installation. I
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encountered many frustrations with the WebCT beast and developed an itch that
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needed scratching - there had to be a better way (no, not Blackboard :-)</P>
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<P>I also know a lot of people in schools and smaller institutions (and some big
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ones!) who want to make better use of the Internet but don't know where to start
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in the maze of technologies and pedagogies that are out there. I've always hoped
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there would be a Free alternative that such people could use to help them move
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their teaching skills into the online environment.</P>
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<P>My strong beliefs in the unrealised possibilities of Internet-based education
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led me to complete a Masters and then a PhD in Education, combining my former
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career in Computer Science with newly constructed knowledge about the nature
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of learning and collaboration.</P>
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<P>Since then Moodle has progressed through several very different prototypes
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until the release of version 1.0 upon a largely unsuspecting world on
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August 20, 2002 and a steady series of improved releases since then.
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<P>I've been using it in several courses and find it an
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extremely usable and reliable tool for building high-quality online courses
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- others are reporting the same. Given the context in which it's been designed,
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it works particularly well for smaller institutions, or for smaller, more intimate
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classes.</P>
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<P>When compared to the big commercial tools such as WebCT or Blackboard I think
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it still falls short in some areas (such as scalability and standards support),
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but it comes out ahead in many others (see <a href="index.php?file=features.html">Features</a>).
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<P> </P>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="." TARGET="_top">Moodle Documentation</A></FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1">Version: $Id$</FONT></P>
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