{"id":630,"date":"2014-04-01T12:28:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=630"},"modified":"2014-11-17T21:48:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T21:48:38","slug":"why-moodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of  Moodle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primary reasons of choosing Moodle are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Used by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform<\/li>\n<li>it is free (<a title=\"Moodle Docs - Cost\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/26\/en\/About_Moodle_FAQ#Cost\" target=\"_blank\">Moodle Docs\u00a0Cost<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>it is an <a title=\"Moodle.org - open source\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/26\/en\/About_Moodle#Free_with_no_licensing_fees\" target=\"_blank\">Open Source<\/a> application (Moodle.org1)<\/li>\n<li>a huge <a title=\"Moodle Support\" href=\"https:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/index.php?id=5\" target=\"_blank\">community<\/a> constantly updating and improving the offering\u00a0(Moodle.org2)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"What is Social Constructionism?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?p=632\">Social Constructivism<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As an elearning practitioner it was also interesting to me because it has an explicit and important educational bias citing social constructionism as the pedagogy on which it is based (<a title=\"Moodle Pedagogy\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/26\/en\/Pedagogy\" target=\"_blank\">Moodle.org3<\/a>) and this links into the <a title=\"Learning Theories\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/?page_id=37\">Learning Theories<\/a> Module<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>References<\/h1>\n<p>Moodle.org1 &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/26\/en\/About_Moodle#Free_with_no_licensing_fees, retrivede 1 Apr 2014<\/p>\n<p>Moodle.org2\u00a0https:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/index.php?id=5, retrieved 1 Apr 2014<\/p>\n<p>Moodle.org3\u00a0http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/26\/en\/Pedagogy,\u00a0retrieved 1 Apr 2014<\/p>\n<p>Moodle Docs Cost &#8211;\u00a0http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/26\/en\/About_Moodle_FAQ#Cost, retrived 22 Apr 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary reasons of choosing Moodle are Used by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform it is free (Moodle Docs\u00a0Cost) it is an Open Source application (Moodle.org1) a huge community constantly updating and improving the offering\u00a0(Moodle.org2) Social Constructivism As an elearning practitioner it was also interesting to me because it has an explicit and important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hughmclain.ie\/ePortfolioDIT\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}