What Does Moodle Mean?
This definition was sent by Mahalia Breen:
The word Moodle was originally an acronym for “Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment,” which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists. It’s also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a “Moodler.”
Pretty cool, huh?
Eva Robertson wrote:
Yes, very cool. I came across the word in Brenda Ueland’s “If You Want to Write,” and perhaps even more than to write, I’d like to moodle . . . . to moodle and doodle.
Posted on 12-Oct-09 at 8:37 pm | Permalink