developed by Martin Dougiamas - an educator and computer scientist.

由一位名叫 Martin Dougiamas 的澳洲人所開發的，他是一位教育學者及電腦工程師。

Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.

Moodle是以網路線上課程為主的軟體包，它是一個可以支援社會建構工作教育

的發展專案。

Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work. Read the license for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.

Moodle是以GNU發行許可證為基礎開放原始碼的自由軟體，這意味著Moodle

是有版權的，但是您也擁有絕對的自由，您被充許可以複製、修改Moodle，

但是您必須同意將您修改後的原始碼公布給其他人，不可以修改或刪除原始

的許可證及授權，而且也遵循同樣的許可證給任何的模仿衍生的產品。您應該

仔細完整的看過許可證的內容，如果您有任何的問題，請馬上和

Martin Dougiamas 做聯繫。

Moodle will run on any computer that can run PHP, and can support many types of database (particularly MySQL).

Moodle支援可以在任何能執行PHP及任何型式的資料庫（特別是MySQL）

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.

Come moodle with us!

　　　Moodle名稱的由來是由物件導向動態學習環境模組的首字字母縮寫而得來的。

　　　它對絕大部份的程式設計者及教育學者是非常有幫助的，Moodle也是一個描

　　　述當您在處理某些事情緩慢的過程，常常引領您深入及開發令人產生興趣的

　　　修補工作的動詞。Moodle也就是因為這雙重的原因而被發展出來的，而且

　　　Moodle也可以讓學生或老師會熱衷於線上課程的學習或教授。任何使用

　　　Moodle的人本身就是一個Moodle人。

資料來源：http://moodle.org/

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy.

Moodle是一個課程管理系統(CMS)，也是一個被設計來幫助教學者在網路上產出一個

課程，像這樣的網路學習系統有時候也被稱作為學習管理系統(LMS)或虛擬學習環境

(VLE)。 Moodle比起其的系統有絕對的優勢就在於它是以社會建構為強烈基礎的教

育學系統。

Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it and even distribute it (under the terms of the GNU General Public License). Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and any other system that supports PHP, including most webhost providers. Data is stored in a single database: MySQL and PostgreSQL are best supported, but it can also be used with Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC and others.

Moodle是開放原始碼的軟體，這也就意味著您可以自由地下載、使用、修改而且甚至

去散佈它（在GNU一般發布的許可證的基礎下）， Moodle可以在大部份支援PHP的

網站據點，無論是 Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware 的作業系統都可以正常的

執行，資料會被儲存在一個資料庫內，特別以MySQL和PostgreSQL資料庫系統為最佳

的選擇，像在 Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC 和其他的資料庫系統也可以正常的執行哦！

Moodle is available in 40 languages, including: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US versions), Finnish, French (France and Canada versions), German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Spain, Mexico, Argentina and Caribbean versions), Swedish, Thai and Turkish.

Moodle支援超過40個各國不同的語言，例如：阿拉伯語.................等等。

To find out more, see the features demo, try the demonstration courses on this site, or see the growing number of Moodle sites around the world. To meet other Moodle users, join us in the Using Moodle course.

如果您想對Moodle有更多的了解，到http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=34&username=guest的這個網站，找到這個網站

左手邊的示範課程（demonstration courses），或是到http://moodle.com/sites/的這個

網站去看看正在持續成長使用Moodle的國家，去看看這些Moodle的愛用者，請加

入使用Moodle課程的行列吧！

資料來源：http://remote-learner.us/index.php?lang=zh_tw

Create 21st Century Schools On 20th Century Budgets!

在二十世紀來為產生二十一世紀未來學校做準備吧！
Schools and districts can host online courses at VAedu-K12.us to help prepare students for using technology that will be a vital part of their future. Moodle engages learners through its "constructivist" pedagogical design, providing a superior learning experience for students. Moodle will augment classroom instruction, deliver standards-based learning activities, reach non-participating and rural or disabled learners, provide teacher & staff development, increase parent and community involvement and much more. Start exploring Moodle now by creating a new account (click link in Login box). If you would like to try your hand at courseware creation in the Teacher Demo course, e-Mail inquire@remote-learn.net and ask for "editing permissions".

許多的學校及地區都在k12 數位學校舉辦網路的課程，用來幫忙學生準備運用科技成為

未來最重要的一部份。 Moodle可以讓學習者自行從教育學的建構上來設計，提供學生

一個優勢的學習經驗， Moodle將班級教學的層面予以擴展，傳遞基本標準的學習活動

，擴展到無豐富資源、鄉下或學習障礙者，提供老師和工作人員來開發，促進父母及社

會團體更多的參與。按Login連結表單來產生一個新的帳號進而開始探索Moodle，假

如您想嘗試老師示範課程的製作軟體，請來信寄到inquire@remote-learn.net 而且

註明索取編輯同意書。