I’ve been kicking the tires on Moodle for a while now and it turns out that my institution, Plymouth State University, is interested in exploring this open-source learning management system as well. As the lead facilitator for this project, I’ve been asked to provide training and support for a number of our faculty who have been kind enough to volunteer to pilot a few courses to test its efficacy. As a result, I’ve been looking for documentation in the area of course development and pedagogy.

There are a number of online resources if you have the patience to search and sift through the flotsam and jetsam to find your answer. Of course, this approach assumes that you know your question. So I did a quick search for Moodle titles and came across two publications. One is a 2005 title published by O’Reilly and entitled “Using Moodle.” The other title is by a publisher I had never heard of, Packt Publishing. Written by William H. Rice, the book is entitled “Moodle - E-Learning Course Development.”

I asked for a complimentary copy to review and they were nice enough to accomodate me with the caveat that I write a review of the title. I’m in the process of tying the book to my faculty development and will publish the review here in about a week.

In the meantime, I’ll be attending the NERCOMP Moodle Interest Group this Friday at Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. If you’re a reader and attending let me know and we’ll catch up F2F!

Turns out that a number of larger higher ed institutions in the United States are using or turning to Moodle as well. The list below is compiled from Moodle’s registered sites list. I was surprised to see so many University of California schools on the list considering their system-wide adoption of SAKAI. There was also a recent article on the Campus Technology website that mentioned UCLA was adopting Moodle as their campus LMS.

Here’s the list:

• Alaska Pacific University, AK - http://distance.alaskapacific.edu/
• Albertson College of Idaho, ID - http://moodle.albertson.edu/
• Alma College - http://courses.alma.edu/
• Anaheim University, CA - http://online.anaheim.edu/
• Antioch College, OH - http://gamma.antioch-college.edu/moodle/
• Athabaska University, CA - http://www.athabascau.ca/media/index.php?id=132
• Augustana College, IL - http://moodle.augustana.edu/
• Humboldt State University, CA - http://learn.humboldt.edu
• San Diego State University, CA – College of Education – http://coedata.sdsu.edu:16080/moodle/
• University of Florida - College of Education – http://online.coe.ufl.edu/
• Earlham College, IN - https://moodle.earlham.edu/
• Eastern Kentucky University, KY - http://www.modellabschool.com/online/
• Guilford College, NC - http://moodle.guilford.edu/
• Huntington University, IN - https://myclasses.huntington.edu/login/index.php
• Illinois College, IL - http://www.ic.edu/moodle/
• MIT, MA – Teacher Education Program – http://education.mit.edu/moodle/
• East Carolina University, NC - http://eagle.aos.ecu.edu/moodle/
• Kalamazoo College, MI - http://moodle.kzoo.edu/moodle/
• Colorado College, CO - https://prowl.coloradocollege.edu/
• Salem College, NC - http://moodle.salem.edu/college/
• SUNY, Oneonta, NY - https://aristotle.oneonta.edu/moodle/
• UCal Davis, CA - http://moodle.ucdavis.edu/
• UCal Irvine, CA – Distance Learning - http://learn.uci.edu/cms/
• UCal Santa Barbara, CA - http://www.moodle.cs.ucsb.edu/
• University of Hawaii, HI – Department of Educational Technology - http://etec.hawaii.edu/courses/
• University of Minnesota, MN - https://moodle.umn.edu/
• University of New Mexico, NM – College of Education - http://ssc-sf1.unm.edu/
• University of South Dakota, SD – Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) - http://moodle.usd.edu/
• UCLA, CA - http://www.oit.ucla.edu/ccle/
• University of Washington, Tacoma, WA – Pilot - http://moodle.tacoma.washington.edu/
• Bradley University, IL – Pilot - http://blackboard.bradley.edu/faculty/LMSreview.shtml

[tags]lms, cms, learning, course, management, system, moodle [/tags]

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