A Moodle Diary

Thursday, June 23, 2005

What is a VLE? What is Moodle?

A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is an interactive, usually web based system for providing online courses, online resources to support courses and interactive resources to support learning. The Wikipedia has a good in-depth entry describing VLEs.

Moodle is a piece of software that serves a a platform for delivering a VLE. It is described on moodle.org as "a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities". The Wikipedia also has an entry describing Moodle.

Moodle is Open Source software, which generally means that the software and it's source code are freely available to use, modify and distribute. The Moodle software is covered by the Gnu General Public License, which list terms under which the software can be used, and ensures that the software remains free and open.

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