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Martin-Dougiamas
Fear and Loathing in the Moodle Community
Moodle News has some questions about our analysis of Moodle’s market share trends. We have answers.
Why Moodle Supporters Should be Concerned
The changes in global LMS adoption patterns we are beginning to observe may spell trouble for Moodle’s long-term sustainability.
MoodleMoot US 16: Playing small-ball
At the MoodleMoot in late June in Los Angeles, which serves as close to a users conference for the open source Moodle LMS community as any other event, there was a strong sense of continuity and general improvements. Rather than aggressive rearchitectures and product lineup changes, the Moodle roadmap is based on hitting singles and running […]
Launch Of Moodle Users Association: 44 members sign up, mostly as individuals
The Moodle Users Association (MUA), a crowd-funding group for additional Moodle core development, announced today that it is open for members to join. Technically the site was internally announced on its web site last Friday, but the press release came out today. As of this writing (Thurs evening PST), 44 members have signed up: 37 at the […]
Moodle Moves Give Hints of What a Post-Fork World Could Look Like
Phil and I have written about the growing tension between the interests of Moodle HQ and a those of a couple of the bigger Moodle Partners, most notably Blackboard. There are a number of ways that this tension could be resolved, but one of the more dramatic possibilities would be a fork of Moodle. While […]
Is Moodle “Bigger than Martin”?
In his recent post on why Moodle matters, Phil wrote, For a large portion of our readers who deal mostly with US higher education, it could be easy to dismiss Moodle as an LMS and an idea past its prime.[…]And yet no other academic LMS solution comes close to Moodle in terms of worldwide deployments […]