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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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 This page describes why Moodle is used for educational research and what research activities take place in the Moodle community.
-== Why Moodle is involved in Research ==
+== How Moodle Supports Research ==
 There are a number of reasons Moodle is chosen as a platform for educational research.
-* '''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 replicated on another instance.
+* '''Aligned with academic ethos'''<br>The open source nature of Moodle, as a software project and community, fits well with the transparency needed in academic research.
-* '''Aligned with academic ethos'''<br>The open source nature of Moodle, as a software product, is similar to the community of sharing present in academic research.
 * '''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.
 == 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]
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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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 * [[Working Groups]]
 * Moodle Conferences
-** Moodle Research Conferences were held in [http://research.moodle.net/cgi/search/simple?q=mrc2012 2012] and http://research.moodle.net/cgi/search/simple?q=mrc2013 2013]
+** Moodle Research Conferences were held in [http://research.moodle.net/cgi/search/simple?q=mrc2012 2012] and [http://research.moodle.net/cgi/search/simple?q=mrc2013 2013]
 ** Research is presented at [https://moodlemoot.org/ MoodleMoots] around the world.
 * [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=316811 A Usability study was conducted on Moodle 2.9]
 * [http://collaborate.athenpro.org/group/moodle/ Moodle Accessibility Collaboration Group]
+* [https://moodle.org/project_inspire Moodle Inspire] provides a framework to conduct academic research within Moodle
 == See also ==
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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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