The Moodle is an open source system and under the GNU Public License and it is an educational tool that serves educators to create online websites for pupils. Educators can use Moodle in promoting or assessing learning. And also institutions can use Moodle as an instrument in blended learning like online or face to face. Sometimes Moodle can be used for activities like forum, databases, wikis and sometimes it is used to deliver content to students. Moodle has about 20 different types of activities and it supports social constructionist view. This view enable teacher to collaborate with pupils. Teachers are not the unique source of knowledge so they should listen to the pupils and give them rights to share their ideas. With the aid of Moodle, pupils ‘learn by doing’ it, they have opportunity to practice the activities. And it is also flexible environment for pupils as a time and space like;
“ The course structure itself is terrific way to construct a shared and active representation of the learning journey that everyone is going through. Forums of course are the core of this, providing spaces for discussion and sharing of media and documents. Wikis are collaboratively-built pages useful for group work and other negotiations. Glossaries are collaboratively-built lists of definitions that can then appear throughout the course. Databases are an extension of this idea allowing participants to enter structured media of any type”.
Moodle is a quality pedagogical website that it helps teachers, learners and pupils very obviously. And it includes social constructivist approach in a good way. Anybody can download it freely and register it voluntarily.
source: moodle.org
source: moodle.org
