What is Moodle?
Moodle is a learning management system that can be used to support and supplement face-to-face teaching with online courses. Hochschule München thus offers lecturers the opportunity to enhance their face-to-face teaching with e-learning, thereby enabling students to benefit from integrated learning.
Moodle can also serve as a platform for exchange and communication, for example for research projects or working groups. The name ‘Moodle’ stands for ‘Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment’.
Possible applications
The Moodle learning platform offers lecturers a wide range of options for designing virtual learning spaces – but it does not prescribe any learning content. Course rooms are created individually by lecturers and can be freely populated with their own learning content. Various learning activities in Moodle enable lecturers to design the online spaces in such a way that, on the one hand, it makes their daily work easier and, on the other hand, the learning needs of the students are taken into account.
Moodle also supports collaborative learning in groups, including through the joint creation of wikis and glossaries. Communication tools can also be used in Moodle to encourage the exchange of knowledge.
