by Thomas N. Robb

Virtually every educational institution has by now adopted a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) or CMS (Course Management System) for use either as an adjunct to its traditional courses (often called a “blended” or ”hybrid” course system), or as a tool for its distance education program. The “big players” are WebCT and Blackboard, both of which are expensive to license and rather rigid in the ways they can be used.

Enter “Moodle”—an open-source system—which is not only free but also highly adaptable. Schools are quickly discovering that they can save thousands of dollars by implementing Moodle, and then spending a small portion of the money saved to program it to work precisely the way they and their instructors want it to. Moodle, however, even used “as is” provides a rich selection of features that often surpasses those of other systems.

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