Moodle Course Design Best Practices - Second Edition

Moodle and online communities

It is often easy to think of Moodle as a learning management system that is used primarily by organizations for their students or employees. The community tends to be well defined as it usually consists of students pursuing a common end, employees of a company, or members of an association or society.

However, there are many informal groups and communities that come together because they share interests, the desire to gain knowledge and skills, the need to work together to accomplish tasks, and the desire to let people know that they've reached milestones and acquired marketable abilities.

For example, an online community may form around the topic of climate change. The group, which may use social media to communicate ...