On 30 July 2019 at 16:58 Gina Bennett bennett.gina@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