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"A recent review of the University's current Learning Management System has recommended that from 2012 Macquarie University move to the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). Currently staff and students use the WebCT LMS provided by Blackboard. As this system will not be available to the University from the end of 2012 a review group was established to find a replacement."

Interesting to read of another major university that is migrating to Moodle.

The third largest Lutheran church organization in America with membership around 400,000.  Our training efforts support users here at the headquarters building in Milwaukee as well as across the US and the world. Our Moodle site is WELS.net University.  We have been using Moodle for about a year and a half to support primarily our technology system training efforts.  We do a lot of in-person training classes on our custom systems and post companion support materials online in Moodle.  In addition, we have been developing stand alone training modules for web based training.  Finally we have made use of the forum tool in Moodle as a communication vehicle for our various system user groups.  I elaborated on this in another forum post. If you are interested, you may view a live sample course that is publicly accessible.http://university.wels.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=63  It exists to support member congregations who sign up for web site hosting through our hosting vendor. .

Neuroscience has shown that our brains are plastic and that education, gaming and the use of technology can change our brains' connectivity, function and structure. (1, 2) But learning is more than just biology - it is affected by our learning environment and the people with whom and from whom we learn. So how do you take what neuroscience reveals about the plastic, learning brain and combine it with educational research, expertise and common sense? Klevar, in association with Flinders University, are offering you the chance to explore this with Dr Paul Howard-Jones of the University of Bristol, researcher and author of "Introducing Neuroeducational Research: Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice".

At this Moodle site you will find University of California college prep courses freely available for students and educators to use as supplemental or complementary material. Courses include Algebra, History, Environmental Science and more.

Moodle tutorials from Adelphi University. Read them online or download pdf files.

Another point that came up in the session was that it is much easier to start with open-source software or platforms rather than try to transition from commercial software to its open-source equivalent. Orwin explained that implementing Moodle into his district was much easier than transitioning from Microsoft Office to Open Office, since teachers were already familiar with Microsoft Office and then had to adjust to the differences in Open Office. That transition was almost four years in the making, he said. On average, it takes about three years before educators begin to truly understand the benefits of moving to open-source software, said Hargadon.