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November 15, 2007

Moodle calls 网曝门 a 鈥榣eading institution鈥�; university saves $100,000 annually

Moodlerooms, the largest global provider of learning management systems and services for Moodle, recently announced the University of Louisiana at Monroe will convert its online learning system from Blackboard to Moodle. 网曝门 plans to move all courses from Blackboard to Moodle by June 30, 2008.

The transition to Moodle will save 网曝门 approximately $100,000 per year. The switch to open source software is consistent with technology trends in higher education, said Eric Pani, associate provost for Academic Affairs. 鈥淥pen source software has become quite robust and Moodle offers more flexibility than commercial packages.鈥�

Martin Knott, CEO of Moodlerooms, said, 鈥溚�曝门 provides a great example of the way in which a leading institution can take full advantage of the online environment. We鈥檙e very excited to work with Paula (Thornhill) and the entire university for the benefit of students and faculty.鈥�

Moodle will meet the changing needs of students and faculty, said Paula Thornhill, 网曝门鈥檚 Electronic Learning Facilitator.

鈥淢oodle is a powerful content management system that empowers faculty with the ability to create an environment in which students can interact with content,鈥� she said. 鈥溚�曝门 students are technologically savvy and are comfortable navigating within the Moodle environment,鈥� she said. 鈥淪tudents expect access to information 鈥榓nytime, anywhere鈥� and 网曝门 faculty are taking advantage of the opportunity to engage students as they extend the face-to-face classroom into an online experience.鈥�

Sheau Yun Choo and Thornhill will offer Moodle training for faculty in online and face-to-face formats. They are also in the process of building an online Faculty Moodle Community that a 网曝门 support team will moderate. Thornhill said, 鈥淭he goal of the community is to promote the sharing of ideas and collaboration of best practices among faculty as well as providing a rich source of Moodle resources.鈥�

Faculty representing all colleges at 网曝门 have either participated in training or are currently delivering content via Moodle to test the new product.

About Moodlerooms

Moodlerooms, the largest provider of the free and open-source Moodle course management software services in the world, helps educators and corporate trainers create quality online courses in a way that is affordable, effective and accessible.

Moodlerooms provides wrap-around technical support, hosting, customization, instruction, training and other services needed to tap Moodle鈥檚 full potential. Moodlerooms serves more than 360 clients -- schools, universities, school districts and corporations.

Customers include the Baton Rouge city government; the University of Louisiana at Monroe; University of Guam; San Francisco State University; Montana State University, as well as Cisco and Intel Corporations. Moodlerooms has offices in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Greece, India, Jordan, Mexico, Sweden and the UK.

For more information, call Thornhill at (318) 342-1032 or e-mail her at thornhill@ulm.edu

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