歴史
作成中です - Mitsuhiro Yoshida (トーク)
1970年後期にオーストラリア奥地で育ったMoodle創設者、開発リーダのMartin Dougiamasは放送授業から教えを受け、幼い頃から遠隔教育の本質を見抜くことになります。
彼は大人として働き始めましたが、後にオーストラリアのカーティン大学で彼をオンライン教育の代替手段探求に駆り立てるWebCTを経験します。1999年、彼の論文『 Improving the Effectiveness of online Learning』の執筆の経験を基に、実験的に初期プロトタイプのLMS開発を開始しました。彼は単語「Moodle」を Moodle Trustの商標 として登録しました。そして数年後、彼は名称の選択に関して、 フォーラム投稿で説明しています。
調査は続きました: 初めてのMoodleサイトは2001年11月にMartinが最初に投稿した自身のmoodle.comであり、Curtin大学のPeter Taylor氏のhttp://smec2001.moodle.com/でした。また、両者により、「An Interpretive analysis of an internet based course constructed using a new courseware tool called Moodle」が発表されました。
2001年の末までにMoodleはCVS経由でダウンロードできるように、そして、基本的なドキュメントを利用できるようになりました (2010年にCVSはGitに替わりました)。It was still very much one man's vision, with Martin setting up the tracker in May 2002 "so you can see what I am working on."
Moodle 1.0 was released in August 2002. Users were discussing Moodle on a new forum, translating Moodle into different languages and creating themes. A year later, the first contributed module (workshop) was released and Moodle.org became the community arm of Moodle, with Moodle.com representing the commercial aspect.
Moodle grew quickly: the first ever Moodle Moot was held in Oxford in 2004 and companies started applying to become Moodle partners. 2005 marked the move to dedicated premises with Martin and 4 others; the current HQ, at Lord Street Perth, houses 16 with 11 working remotely. At the Spanish Moodle Moot 2005 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the mojito established itself as the unofficial - and then subsequently official - Moodle Moot drink. (See blog post: Moodle Mojitos History)
With improved documentation and new certification , Moodle had established itself by 2007 as a leading and award-winning open source LMS. From 1000 registered sites in 2004, it had gone to half a million users in 2008 and over a million users in 2010, with over 50 Moodle partners. Its translation repository AMOS held over 100 languages. The long awaited Moodle 2.0 came out in November 2010 and now, regular releases bring enhanced features every six months. The current focus is on mobile technology: an official HTML5 app was released in 2013 and the latest version of Moodle includes a customisable theme suitable for all screen sizes.
The inauguration of the Moodle Research conference in 2012 served as a reminder that, however advanced the technology, Moodle design and development is guided by social constructionist pedagogy. During September 2013, the official Moodle MOOC, Learn Moodle, introduced over 9000 participants to Moodle's basic features. Educators everywhere are encouraged to share their experiences, just as did Martin over a decade previously.
