Web Worker Daily

Here’s a possible update on the old saying, “Those who can: do. Those who can’t: teach.”

Those who need to teach, train or monetize their skills use moodle. There’s about a bazillion Content Management Systems out there, with more being released into the wild daily, so when I heard about moodle as a possible solution for a project I’m working on, I expected to see yet another CMS. Not so.

Moodle is an open source/free Learning Management System currently running on about 40,000 sites with nearly 20 million users. Those numbers have been steeply climbing the last several months.

With moodle, you can create anything from the online equivalent of a major university down to a tiny mini-site used to orientate new hires for your online business. With about 320 community and core modules, you can build your online courses out of everything from standard multiple choice quizzes to forums, wikis, podcasts and videos, all without touching a line of PHP code.
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