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<TITLE>Moodle Docs: Introduction</TITLE>
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<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="../theme/standard/styles.css" TYPE="TEXT/CSS">
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<H2>Introduction</H2>
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<P>Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites.
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It's an ongoing development project designed to support a <A HREF="http://dougiamas.com/writing/herdsa2002/">social constructionist</A> framework of education. </P>
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<P>Moodle is provided freely as <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html">
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Open Source</A> software (under the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">
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GNU Public License</A>). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional
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freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle <B>provided</B> that you agree: to provide
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the source to others; to not modify or remove the original license, and apply this same
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license to any derivative work.
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<P>Moodle will run on any computer that can run <A HREF="http://www.php.net/">
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PHP</A>, and can support many types of database (particularly <a href="http://www.mysql.com/">MySQL</a>).</P>
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<P>The word Moodle is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
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Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists.
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It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through
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something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering
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that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way
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Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying
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or teaching an online course.</P>
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<P><BR>
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<P ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1"><A HREF="index.html" 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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