Interview with Martin Dougiamas, creator of Moodle

April 5th, 2009
by Cleve

From The Island Weekly, Anne Hodgson’s blog.  See her post for a link to the full interview audio.

I always try to explain the difference between Moodle and what we are doing with the open platform English360, but Dougiamos himself outlines it better than I can:

Moodle is really a system of control. The web 2.0 is very much about complete freedom and openness and lack of privacy. And Moodle is obviously oriented to what institutions care about, which is about walls and protected spaces, and this just allows you to bring content from the wider world into these potected spaces and do interesting things with them.”

It’s for people who like islands. It’s for those people who need that. And it’s definitely not the solution for everybody.

Our goal with English360 is to provide web 2.0 learning tools for those who don’t need the islands and don’t need a system of control.

This reminds me that I need to dig up and post on Dougiamas’ “5 laws of VLEs” - which are brilliant (although I’ll propose a 6th Law).

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