On 30 July 2019 at 16:58 Gina Bennett
<bennett.gina(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>for me, this is a very interesting question
raised by you [Peter] about
using Moodle in the Wikimedia movement.
I agree with you, Elly! The philosophical foundation of Moodle has many
similarities with the Wikimedia philosophy: the goal of increasing
educational access to all. Moodle is incredibly flexible & because the code
is open we could develop a very specific version of it which could be very
useful for Wikimedia-based education projects.
I have been trying to formulate a version of "Moodle-lite" for around five years
now. It needs an extensive discussion.
Some highlights:
*Moodle is not at all open, in the sense that we understand it.
*One core Wikimedia value is reusability, and Moodle falls down there.
*The direction of travel for Moodle has been towards the features needed by the
largest-scale users.
After the relative lack of interest in Magnus Manske's Comprende! tool (2017), I
stopped thinking this "lite" approach was going to take off. I still believe, in
the Wikidata era, that there is an opportunity for Wikimedia to intervene in this area,
though.
I have worked with Moodle for many years, mostly as a
curriculum developer
(not a coder, unfortunately!) & I think it would be very exciting to be
involved with such a project. What do you think about proposing an idea
like this as a project for the Google Summer of Code
<https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/>? I know Moodle has been involved
with the GSoC for many years.
I would say that the design issues need some radical thinking, first.
Charles