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Moodle for EnglishTeachers
Specialization CourseLic. Martín Ulises AparicioNovember 2009
 
 
Moodle and ESL/EFL
•Moodle is a free online
course management system
 (CMS) also known as a Learning ManagementSystem (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment(VLE) which is especially good for language teaching.With its many useful and friendly tools, it canintegrate all our online functionality in a singleapplication. Since 2002, Moodle has been developedon a socio-constructivist approach to learning.•The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic LearningEnvironment, which is mostly useful to programmersand education theorists. It's also a verb thatdescribes the process of lazily meandering throughsomething, doing things as it occurs to you to dothem, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads toinsight and creativity.
 
 
•Without any web editing skill, teachers canpresent our online material to be a coherentwhole and simplify the way students accessit by Moodle interface.•Moodle can run without modification onUnix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS , Netwareand any other system that supports PHP,including most webhost providers.•Moodle is available in 40 languages, and itis Open Source software, which means youare free to download it, use it, modify it andeven distribute it (under the terms of theGNU General Public License).
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