Advantages of Moodle?

Primary reasons of choosing Moodle are

• Used by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform
• it is free (Moodle Docs Cost)
• it is an Open Source application (Moodle.org1)
• a huge community constantly updating and improving the offering (Moodle.org2)
• Social Constructivism

As an elearning practitioner it was also interesting to me because it has an explicit and important educational bias citing social constructionism as the pedagogy on which it is based (Moodle.org3) and this links into the Learning Theories Module

 

References

Moodle.org1 – http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/About_Moodle#Free_with_no_licensing_fees, retrivede 1 Apr 2014

Moodle.org2 https://moodle.org/mod/forum/index.php?id=5, retrieved 1 Apr 2014

Moodle.org3 http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/Pedagogy, retrieved 1 Apr 2014

Moodle Docs Cost – http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/About_Moodle_FAQ#Cost, retrived 22 Apr 2014.