e-Learning SIG

Moodle: The open source revolution comes to e-learning

When

Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 6:00-8:15 PM. (Doors open at 5:30)

Where

Harold Washington Library, 400 South State Street, Chicago
Lower Level, please enter at Plymouth side entrance

Abstract
For the last several years, open source software has been changing the technology landscape and creating opportunities for innovation and initiatives that simply would have been too expensive or too complicated otherwise. By now, everyone's heard of Linux, an OSS operating system, and chances are good that in the last few months you've downloaded Firefox, the OSS alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer. But you may not be aware that a watershed is occurring in our own community, thanks to Moodle, an open source course management system.

Moodle supports both 100% online and blended learning, offers built in tools for communication and interaction among peers and instructors, includes multiple assessment tools. supports multimedia content, includes 50 language packs, runs on any server that supports PHP, and like other open source software, is FREE.

Join us in April for a session that will open your eyes to the potential of Moodle. Come and meet three people in the Chicago area who are using Moodle to change people and organizations:

- Amy Bellinger uses Moodle to introduce new ways of achieving staff development at the National Safety Council.

- Diana Clarke leads the Moodle revolution at the Rolling Meadows High Schools.

- Nicole B. Hansen creates new opportunities by using Moodle as the basis for a business teaching Egyptology.

Materials

- welcome.ppt
- bios.doc

Related links

- Moodle.org and Moodle.com (Moodle commercial partners)
- Moodle forum for followup discussion to the SIG session, courtesy of Amy Bellinger
- GlyphDoctors.com
- Rolling Meadows High School Moodle site

About the SIG
The AMC e-learning SIG provides a forum for sharing knowledge, networking, and otherwise contributing to the advancement of e-learning. Our members convene several times a year at the Harold Washington Library Center in downtown Chicago.

Admission
AMC members and full-time students FREE; non-members $10.

The event is chaired by Anna Belyaev of Type A, and Chicago-based consultant and content developer Jason Rothstein. For more information, contact Anna Belyaev via anna@typea.net or Jason Rothstein via jr@jasonrothstein.com.

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