Moodle buzz

From a technical perspective, the choice of Moodle as the OU's VLE shows how Open Source products can be well capable of competing with proprietary solutions. It was and is seen as the best available solution that would meet the OU's demands on stability, flexibility, scalability, and also very important: support. Compared to commercial software deployments, Moodle does not rely on one support partner, but features a community of users world wide. With more than 2,5 million registered courses and roughly 28 million users, this is a substantial source of feedback and information, which is invaluable to the work of the OU. By contributing to this community with their own developments, they create a win-win situation, as their tools improve with all the feedback and assistance, and all others users benefit from the additional functionalities added by the OU.