The Moodle Philosophy

Moodle is designed based on a learning style which is called Social Constructionist Pedagogy.

With simply words, that means that people learn best by interacting with each other, student to instructor, instructor to student(s), student to student(s) etc. General speaking we can say that the difference between a traditional class and the social constructionist philosophy is the difference between a lecture and a discussion. Also, this was the teaching method/style that Socrates has introduced in the ancient greek education best known as dialectic method. Furthermore, Moodle offers eleven kinds of interactive course material. The first six refer to the interaction between student and teacher,

1. Assignment,
2. Choice (a single question),
3. Journal,
4. Lesson (branching activity),
5. Quiz,
6. Survey (only available to the teacher, student),

and the last five refer to the interaction between student(s)

1. Chat
2. Forum
3. Glossary (students contribute terms to site-wide glossaries
4. Wiki
5. Workshop