Wednesday, December 6

Moodle: An Electronic Course Management System Tool

Dear Professionals,
Have you heard about Moodle?Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System(CMS) tool for more effective learning mechanism. All you need is a PC for each student and teacher and a good Internet connection and you can work wonders using this Course Management System. In some cases the teachers may be physically present in the class room and still use an e-learning platform for effective learning mechanism. In other cases, the teacher and student may be miles apart and yet connected to a virtual class room.

Online interactive learning Platform (OIL Platform) offer an interactive stage for people to communicate in a variety of ways-through real time chats, messaging systems, audio- video conferencing, bulletin boards etc.

OIL Platforms allow teachers to put up a variety of curriculum content in different formats, such as powerpoint slides, links to various web resources, audio/video presentations, quizzes, polls etc. in the e-learning system.

Some popular e-learning platforms include ‘Blackboard’ from Microsoft and ‘Moodle’.

For more details about moodle click on www.moodle.org.

For Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com/services/training/academic_suite/index.Bb


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