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Habiendo crecido en la zona de Australia conocida como el "Outback" a finales de los años setenta del siglo XX, el fundador de Moodle y desarrollador líder Martin Dougiamas tomó lecciones en la Escuela del Aire, proporcionándole dicha experiencia desde muy joven un conocimiento profundo acerca del aprendizaje a distancia.

Como adulto, trabajó y después estudió en la Universidad Curtin, en donde su experiencia con WebCT le movió a investigar acerca de un método alternativo de enseñanza en línea. En 1999 empezó probando algunos prototipos tempranos de un nuevo LMS, las experiencias que formaron la base para su trabajo Improving the Effectiveness of online Learning (Mejorando la efectividad del aprendizaje a distancia). El registró la palabra 'Moodle' como trademark of the Moodle Trust. y explicó su escogencia del nombre en forum post algunos años más tarde.

Research continued: the first ever Moodle site was Peter Taylor's http://smec2001.moodle.com/ at Curtin University , with Martin making the first post on his own Moodle.com site in November 2001. The pair published An Interpretive analysis of an internet based course constructed using a new courseware tool called Moodle.

By the end of 2001, Moodle could be downloaded via CVS (Git arrived in 2010 and replaced CVS in 2013) and basic installation documentation was available. 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.

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, Nuevas_características_de_Moodle_2.5, 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. Educators everywhere are encouraged to share their experiences, just as did Martin over a decade previously.