Portable Moodle
Mission Aviation Fellowship-Learning Technologies Division (MAF-LT) http://www.maflt.org/index.html announces the release of another exciting Distance Education software tool. Portable Moodle makes the world’s most popular Internet course management system, Moodle, available to the word’s 1 billion people who have access to computers, but not the Internet.
Portable Moodle puts an entire course onto any portable media such as a CD-ROM, hard disk drive, or USB memory stick. Educators may now offer curriculum on media that students can plug into any computer anywhere – at home, at a friend’s, or in an Internet café. Portable Moodle immediately transports the student into a full-featured classroom offering course outlines, lesson text, pictures and diagrams, exams, and supplemental reference material as well. If appropriate to the venue, the student may also communicate with the instructor and classmates via email (if available) or regular postal service.
MAF-LT developed Portable Moodle to equip national church leaders, missionaries and international mission organizations with a tool to make the wide range of online, biblical, Distance Education material available to people without Internet connections. While MAF-LT developed this tool primarily to expand the reach of Christian education, it may also be used for the extensive variety of community development courses such as rural doctor training and community health promotion.
MAF-LT spent two years developing this tool to advance God’s Kingdom. Currently available in English, pending releases will soon offer Portable Moodle in Spanish, Russian and French. Portable Moodle may be downloaded at no cost from. Tax-deductible donations to cover course development and continuing support will be thankfully accepted. For more information, go to the Portable Moodle forum.
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