[IAEP] moodle

Costello, Rob R Costello.Rob.R at edumail.vic.gov.au
Tue Sep 16 07:36:30 EDT 2008


> The quoted paragraph made me think of Moodle (and perhaps other
> similar projects). They also have deployments in real schools around
> the world and I guess their goal is the same as ours (provide a
> platform for learning, etc). Are they already where we want to get?
> How did they got there?

Just started looking at moodle for other reasons and its interesting ...
similar educational philosophy in some ways (constructivism
constructionism) 
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Philosophy

and interesting theoretical / design ideas 
http://dougiamas.com/writing/edmedia2003/




> -----Original Message-----
> From: iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org [mailto:iaep-
> bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org] On Behalf Of Tomeu Vizoso
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2008 8:33 PM
> To: Christoph Derndorfer
> Cc: iaep
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Teacher in Uruguay enchanted to see his ideas
> integratedinto global Sugar update [pr mockup]
> 
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> >
> > "It's great to know that teachers all around Uruguay and even other
> > countries will be able to use this now," Albarez commented. "This is
a
> > text-book example of how closely the Sugar Labs community works with
the
> > people who use our Sugar platform on a daily basis," said The Joker,
a
> > member of Sugar Labs' Oversight Board. "By leveraging resources on
the
> > ground to understand how people use Sugar and then directly
connecting
> > them to the very people working on the software we can accurately
> > improve our platform to fit the requirements of the many teachers
and
> > children around the world who use Sugar." The Joker closed by saying
"I
> > don't think any other company or organization in the world can offer
> > this kind of service."
> 
> Wonderful, really looks like what I would like to see in the 6-12
> months timeframe.
> 
> The quoted paragraph made me think of Moodle (and perhaps other
> similar projects). They also have deployments in real schools around
> the world and I guess their goal is the same as ours (provide a
> platform for learning, etc). Are they already where we want to get?
> How did they got there?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu
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