Moodle Users Association Officially Launches, Announces New Members from Around the World
Baltimore, MD, January 23, 2016 --(PR.com)-- After months of collaboration and planning, the Moodle Users Association (MUA) officially launched accepting new members January 20th. Individuals and organizations have already joined from around the world at all levels of membership.
This exciting initiative starts a new chapter for the world’s largest open source learning management system and creates a new means for community members to actively participate in the development of Moodle. Through membership, individuals and organizations directly engage in Association Activity - a collaborative process of proposing and then voting on which new features will be developed and added to Moodle core.
“I’ve been an active developer in the Moodle community for just over 6 years now, and I’m really excited to see the Moodle User Association fill the need for getting contributions and new features built into core to help it stay competitive in the ever-changing educational technology landscape,” says Nick Thompson, CCLE Coordinator at UCLA and Founding Chair of the General Committee. “As chair I hope to foster an atmosphere and really enable Moodle Users themselves become an integral part of the Moodle development process in a way that has never been done before.”
Only days into the first week of its launch members are signing up from around the world at all levels. Well-known Moodle developers and community members, have joined as individuals (individual membership if $100 AUD/year, additionally, institutions like Leipzig University in Germany, North Carolina State University in the USA, and the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (a consortium of 30 plus small liberal arts colleges in the US) have joined as organizational levels ranging from $1,000 AUD to $10,000 AUD per year.
The first Committee for the MUA includes members and organizations from around the world. Founding members include representatives from Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Greece, and Serbia.
About the Moodle Users Association
The Moodle Users Association is an official non-profit organisation dedicated to contributing towards the core development of Moodle. To learn more about the Moodle Users Association or to become a member visit https://moodleassociation.org/
About Moodle
First released in 2002 by Martin Dougiamas, Moodle has since developed into a full-featured, flexible open source learning platform currently used in more than 230 countries with more than 70 million users worldwide. Moodle is a true open source project with thousands of collaborators from around the world, led by Moodle Pty Ltd from Perth, Australia (http://moodle.com) and financially supported by a global network of Moodle Partner service companies. The focus of Moodle is to provide educators with the best tools to manage and promote learning. For more information, visit http://moodle.org.
This exciting initiative starts a new chapter for the world’s largest open source learning management system and creates a new means for community members to actively participate in the development of Moodle. Through membership, individuals and organizations directly engage in Association Activity - a collaborative process of proposing and then voting on which new features will be developed and added to Moodle core.
“I’ve been an active developer in the Moodle community for just over 6 years now, and I’m really excited to see the Moodle User Association fill the need for getting contributions and new features built into core to help it stay competitive in the ever-changing educational technology landscape,” says Nick Thompson, CCLE Coordinator at UCLA and Founding Chair of the General Committee. “As chair I hope to foster an atmosphere and really enable Moodle Users themselves become an integral part of the Moodle development process in a way that has never been done before.”
Only days into the first week of its launch members are signing up from around the world at all levels. Well-known Moodle developers and community members, have joined as individuals (individual membership if $100 AUD/year, additionally, institutions like Leipzig University in Germany, North Carolina State University in the USA, and the Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (a consortium of 30 plus small liberal arts colleges in the US) have joined as organizational levels ranging from $1,000 AUD to $10,000 AUD per year.
The first Committee for the MUA includes members and organizations from around the world. Founding members include representatives from Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Greece, and Serbia.
About the Moodle Users Association
The Moodle Users Association is an official non-profit organisation dedicated to contributing towards the core development of Moodle. To learn more about the Moodle Users Association or to become a member visit https://moodleassociation.org/
About Moodle
First released in 2002 by Martin Dougiamas, Moodle has since developed into a full-featured, flexible open source learning platform currently used in more than 230 countries with more than 70 million users worldwide. Moodle is a true open source project with thousands of collaborators from around the world, led by Moodle Pty Ltd from Perth, Australia (http://moodle.com) and financially supported by a global network of Moodle Partner service companies. The focus of Moodle is to provide educators with the best tools to manage and promote learning. For more information, visit http://moodle.org.
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Joseph Thibault
802-735-2066
moodleassociation.org
Joseph Thibault
802-735-2066
moodleassociation.org
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