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This page describes why Moodle is used for educational research and what research activities take place in the Moodle community.

How Moodle Supports Research

There are a number of reasons Moodle is chosen as a platform for educational research.

Aligned with academic ethos
The open source nature of Moodle, as a software project and community, fits well with the transparency needed in academic research.
Extensible for research
Because Moodle can be customised, it can be used for experiments and data gathering, which would not be as easily conducted in other systems. A plugin created for research on one instance can be shared and used on another system easily.
Common framework
Because Moodle is freely available and more featured than other Learning Management Systems, it is often chosen as a framework for collaborative research across institutions/organisations. Research conducted on one instance of Moodle, with or without customisations, can be easily replicated on another instance.

Discussing Moodle research

Moodle research publications

The Moodle Research Library exists as a repository for published research related to Moodle. The repository contains research outputs relevant to the Moodle project and the works of Moodle's community of users.

Journal articles
Conference proceedings papers
Papers written to complement MoodleMoot presentations
Theses
Other works of research

Research activities related Moodle

Moodle community members come together to share research activities in a person in a number of ways.

Working Groups
Moodle Conferences
- Moodle Research Conferences were held in 2012 and 2013
- Research is presented at MoodleMoots around the world.
A Usability study was conducted on Moodle 2.9
Moodle Accessibility Collaboration Group
Moodle Inspire provides a framework to conduct academic research within Moodle

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 * '''Extensible for research'''<br>Because Moodle can be customised, it can be used for experiments and data gathering, which would not be as easily conducted in other systems. A plugin created for research on one instance can be shared and used on another system easily.
 * '''Common framework'''<br> Because Moodle is freely available and more featured than other Learning Management Systems, it is often chosen as a framework for collaborative research across institutions/organisations. Research conducted on one instance of Moodle, with or without customisations, can be easily replicated on another instance.
-* '''[https://moodle.org/project_inspire Moodle Inspire'''] <br> Moodle's native Learning Analytics platform provides direct support to quantitative academic research using a documented API for implementing common Indicators (independent variables) and Targets (dependent variables).
 == Discussing Moodle research ==
-There is a permanent discussion about research on [https://moodle.org moodle.org]. The forum is home to discussions about research news including the sharing of significant Moodle-related research publications. A specific forum also exists for discussing Learning analytics.
 * [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=8205 Moodle Research forum]
 * [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=8044 Analytics and Reporting forum]
-A Twitter account exists for sharing Moodle research. Following [https://twitter.com/MoodleResearch @MoodleResearch] will allow you to be made aware of relevant educational technology research from a Moodle perspective.
 == Moodle research publications ==
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 * Theses
 * Other works of research
-See [http://research.moodle.net/information.html more information about the Moodle Research Library].
 == Research activities related Moodle ==
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 * [[:en:Logging|Logging]]
 * [[Learning_Analytics_Specification|Learning Analytics API specification]]
-* [[Event_2|Events specification]]
+* [[Events API|Events specification]]
 * [[Logging_2|Logging specification]]
 * [[reportbuilder/API|Report Builder API specification]]

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