{"id":3122,"date":"2017-10-03T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2019-06-11T14:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:30:01","slug":"moodle-the-ideological-online-education-provider-finds-a-conscientious-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/moodle-the-ideological-online-education-provider-finds-a-conscientious-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle, the Ideological Online Education Provider, Finds a Conscientious Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 27<sup>th<\/sup>, Moodle\u2014by all rights the most widely used online education platform in the world\u2014made a big announcement: they had found an investor.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s great news for any company; but Moodle isn\u2019t just any company. They were the first free, open-sourced learning management system provider. Since they were created, they have operated under a strict doctrine that promotes education above all else.<\/p>\n<p>While other LMS providers have transformed their corner of the once-utopian world of online education into an incredibly profitable product or service, Moodle remains committed to paradise. By prioritizing education over profits, they have been forced to resist numerous offers over the years.<\/p>\n<p>But Education for the Many, a subsidiary of the Leclercq family, passed their litmus test. <a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.com\/2017\/09\/27\/moodle-welcomes-6m-european-investment-fuel-growth-innovation\/\">The organization paid $6 million to become a minority stakeholder in Moodle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have searched for a long time to find an investor who could truly understand and care about our mission, vision and values, and not just look at our organization in monetary terms,\u201d said Martin Dougiamas, founder and CEO of Moodle Pty Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The money will be used to continue to develop their platform and fund new projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to our primary product\u2014the Moodle software itself\u2014we have a number of existing new supporting products that we\u2019re excited to be building\u2014they will work together to provide a consistent and next-generation open platform to empower educators in the coming years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pedagogy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The profession of teaching (or art if you prefer)\u2014Pedagogy\u2014is treated with the highest deference at Moodle. Their site features a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/33\/en\/Pedagogy#Moodle_in_three_short_paragraphs\">lengthy page<\/a> elaborating on the subject. The page is not credited with an author, but whoever wrote it did so in the first person. To make an educated guess, it seems to be a product of Dougiamas himself.<\/p>\n<p>The prose is highly ideological, and describes 5 principles which, according to the author, \u201cI use in every presentation I do.\u201d These are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>All of us are potential teachers as well as learners\u2014in a true collaborative environment we are both.<\/li>\n<li>We learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing something for others to see.<\/li>\n<li>We learn a lot by just observing the activity of our peers.<\/li>\n<li>By understanding the contexts of others, we can teach in a more transformational way (constructivism).<\/li>\n<li>A learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can quickly respond to the needs of the participants within it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For now, the management of Moodle will not contradict this manifesto. That\u2019s why Leclercq\u2019s investment is so exciting. It proves that, when major LMS and MOOC providers flaunt their social progress while pocketing massive profits, a truly free product can succeed in a free market.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait, how does Moodle make money in the first place?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3128\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moodle-investment-elearning-industry.jpg\" alt=\"eLearning investments - LMS VC investments\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moodle-investment-elearning-industry.jpg 1798w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moodle-investment-elearning-industry-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moodle-investment-elearning-industry-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moodle-investment-elearning-industry-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moodle-investment-elearning-industry-223x148.jpg 223w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/moodle-investment-elearning-industry-360x241.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>The company offers their platform for free and lets anyone build on it without charging for a developers\u2019 license. They don\u2019t provide hosting services like Blackboard and they don\u2019t sell ads (although they technically provide administrators the option to do so).<\/p>\n<p>So how do they keep the lights on?<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moodlenews.com\/2012\/opinion-what-did-blackboard-actually-buy-and-how-does-it-affect-moodle\/\">2012 blog post by the company concerning Blackboard\u2019s acquisition of Moodlerooms and Netspot<\/a>, Moodle Partners make up part of the difference. \u201cMoodle Partners give financial support, contribute code, coordinate major projects \u2026 and grow Moodle\u2019s userbase in exchange for being part of an exclusive group of official partners allowed to hock Moodle related products and services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Leclerq family will not be one of these partners, they just really believe in open education.<\/p>\n<p>According to Julien Leclercq, president of the Leclercq family structure, \u201cThe world will experience major technological upheavals in the coming decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo allow everyone to adapt to these changes, education of the largest number of people will be the number one solution to living better together \u2026 We are thrilled to now be active in the Moodle community, a community with a purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a moment when Silicon Valley disrupters trumpet things like innovation and democracy, Moodle is walking the walk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 27th, Moodle\u2014by all rights the most widely used online education platform in the world\u2014made a big announcement: they had found an investor. 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