Moodle

Moodle is an open source learning management system (LMS) that is taking the educational world by storm (1). This term I've noticed many of my courses at CQUniversity have switched from proprietary LMS's such as blackboard academic suite to this system. Having not used it before, I found it to be fairly user-friendly and I predict that it will probably become the preferred platform for online courses at CQU.

I believe Moodle has been created with the digital native in mind. It is constructed using a social-networking framework, allowing students to construct their own profiles and promoting collaboration more so than many other learning management systems I have used. Its only downfall, in my opinion, aside from the noted lack of documentation and backup support is that it needs a better layout. A sidebar like that used in the blackboard LMS where topics and course information can be easily accessed in one spot (and not all over the place) would increase its user-friendliness.

References
Learning Management Systems (LMS), online http://moodle.cqu.edu.au/mod/resource/view.php?id=18307

REFECTIONS
What are your impressions of moodle?