Moodle: a case study of a large open source project - Presented by Martin Dougiamas
ACS WA June Branch Forum 2019
Registration End Date: Tue, 18 Jun, 05:30 PM
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Adina Apartment Hotel
33 Mounts Bay Road
PERTH WA 6000
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Tue, 18 Jun, 05:30 PM
Event Finish: Tue, 18 Jun, 07:30 PM
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Member: $10.00
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Non-Member: $25.00
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<b>Moodle began in Perth at the turn of the century while Martin was working at Curtin University of Technology, supporting staff in their use of emerging internet and web technology. </b> It has since grown into a learning platform on which over 60% of higher education institutions around the world now depend on for their online interactions with students, with hundreds of millions of users and thousands of developers.<br><br>One major reason for this is the design of the open source community around the system, which enables academic users to engage with and support the project in a number of ways. But this alone was not enough - there are countless great ideas in the sourceforge graveyard. The second major reason is that Moodle supports itself through a unique business model around services that works in harmony with what Moodle users need. <br><br>Moodle Pty Ltd, the Perth-based company at the heart of Moodle, has been steadily expanding and now supports Moodle apps, MoodleCloud, MoodleNet, Moodle Workplace, a Moodle Educator Certification and Moodle conferences world-wide. Moodle’s latest project is a conference called OpenEdTech.global which brings together like-minded people annually in Barcelona.<br><br>Martin will explain these projects and how open source as a development method has helped create them, support them, and ensure their quality. He’ll also explore some of the difficulties that open source brings.
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