[UPDATED] Presentation. Moodle™ as an Institutional Virtual Learning Environment

We’re proud to note that Lambda Learning’ own Co-Founder Jim Yupangco gave a well-received presentation on Moodle as an Institutional Virtual Learning Environment at the BC Career College Association Conference. The presentation included an overview of some of the challenges that face learners, businesses and educators, explanation of open source software, steps for successfully using Moodle and a few case studies.

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Some highlights that may be of interest to our current clients as well as prospective organizations looking to install or customize Moodle for their own systems:

First, the number of users of Moodle has increased hugely over the last decade and now includes well over one million registered users.

Other Open-Source software and social networks can be seamlessly integrated with Moodle.

Moodle Adoption Quick Facts

• As of 5 October 2011
• 1,500 Sites In Canada
• 12,900 Sites in US
• 57,000 Sites Worldwide
• 75+ language packs
• 46 Million Users
• Teachers 1,123,328
• Enrolments 20,267,985

Moodle.org Community Overview

• 160,000+ downloads per month
• 1.1M registered community users
• 1865 new site registrations per month
• 1,800 new community users per day
• 40,000 active on community site each month

Have a look at this graph showing adoption since 2003 (It’s bigger in the PDF – but you get the idea):

And this graphic shows how Moodle could make use of other open source software and social networks your organization might be using:

Do have a look at the presentation on PDF. If you would like to chat with us about the contents of this presentation, please feel free to contact us directly.

We’re happy to talk with you about how you might be able to use Moodle in your organization, or how you might improve your implementation if you’re already using Moodle as a Learning Management System. Email support@lambdasolutions.net