The word Moodle is an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment; Moodle is a license free open-source software platform. Those involved with e-learning also call it as Learning Content Management System (LCMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).Moodle is designed to help educators and content experts to create online courseware with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design allows content experts to develop additional functionalities. Development of this e-learning platform is undertaken by a globally diffused network of commercial and noncommercial users, spearheaded by the company based in Perth, Western Australia.

Moodle is modular in its design and can readily be extended by creating plug-ins for new functionalities. Moodle's infrastructure supports many types of plug-in such as activities, resource types, question types, data field types (for the database activity), graphical themes, authentication methods, enrollment methods, content filters and reports. Many third-party solutions are also available for making use of its open infrastructure. Moodle's development has also been assisted by the work of open source programmer community.

This has contributed towards its rapid growth and development. The stated philosophy of Moodle includes a social constructionist approach to education, emphasizing that both students and teachers can contribute to the educational experience in many ways. Moodle is also useful in an outcomes-based interactive classroom environment that could be continuously improved by analyzing the captured data of all activities such as ‘views’ and ‘posts’ for all the learning objects or components of a courseware hosted on a system.

In the second phase of funding (ICTP II), we are going to allocate resources to develop some extra features (like Virtual Classroom, Question Banks,...etc.) to be integrated within the new courses. On the other hand, selection of the most suitable linux based operating system will be conside red. In addition, based on the current and expected number of users, selection of the database management system will be also considered to support this number of user.

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