Social Constructivism

I'm taking a course on Moodle. I just listened to a fascinating interview with Martin Dougiamas, the founder of Moodle.

He talked about how Moodle is based on the theory of social constructivism. In his writings he defines to social construction as "Collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings".

Moodle is about communication, learning and collaboration. In the course I've heard people call it a "tool box" or an "operating system for e-Learning".


Moodle “Allows both teacher and learner to construct environments in their computer within which they can construct representations of their understandings of the subject and share them with others in a variety of ways.”