Bringing flexibility and extensibility into Learning Management Systems is crucial because it gives teachers and students a free choice of technologies and educational materials they want to use for their courses. This paper presents a solution by enabling widgets (OpenSocial apps) within Moodle. Our first Moodle plugin allows teachers to freely choose a set of tools they want to use in their c...

This study is designed to investigate into how academics (university lecturers) who were involved in the design and development of MOODLE based-courses use the blended learning system to facilitate teaching and learning in the classroom and what factors facilitate or impede the effective design of MOODLE by academics .Qualitative research design was used. Various existing courses of seven lectu...

This paper describes a tool that enables instructors to select, visualize and mine students’ usage data in Moodle courses. The tool has been developed in PHP language and integrated in Moodle as a block.

Using Moodle is a complete, hands-on guide for instructors learning how to use Moodle, the popular course management system (CMS) that enables remote web-based learning and supplements traditional classroom learning....

Moodle is one of the most extended Learning Management Systems and is based on the open source (GPL) license agreement. We summarize the advantages of the use of this environment and show our six-year experience with the tools that Moodle provide. It would be of interest that any exhaustively used tool, such as quizzes, could reuse the knowledge that teachers store year after year in the Moodle...

Analysis of seven optimization techniques grouped under three categories (hardware, back-end, and front-end) is done to study the reduction in average user response time for Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle), a Learning Management System which is scripted in PHP5, runs on Apache web server and utilizes MySQL database software. Before the implementation of these techn...

The increasing online access to courses, programs, and information has shifted the control and responsibility of learning process from instructors to learners. Learners’ perceptions of and attitudes toward e-learning constitute a critical factor to the success of such system. The purpose of this study is to take TAM (technology acceptance model) as a foundation and include perceived convenience...

In technology-enhanced learning, activity-based learner models can provide evidence for competence assessment. Such models are the foundation for learning and teaching support, such as: adaptation, assessment, and competence analytics, recommendations, and so on. This paper analyses how to construct activity-based learner models based on existing data in the Moodle learning management system. B...

Nowadays, instant messenger (IM) has become increasingly popular. There are eighty-two million people used IM applications to communicate online in February 2006 [1]. The MSN Messenger is the most popular with 61 percent of worldwide IM users use MSN Messenger which has been renamed to Windows Live Messenger (WLM) Windows Live Messenger (WLM) can access from many channel such as desktop compute...

The use of new technologies has been increasing during last years in education. More specifically, the use of e-learning systems provides for students more freedom to learn through Internet when and where they prefer in each moment. However, e-learning tools are not perfect tools. Most of these e-learning tools present accessibility barriers, so not all students are able to use them completely ...