Technological Framework

Technological Framework (Moodle – a free[1] open source Learning Management System with more than 50 percent of world market share is used as a LMS of choice for this project proposal. Moodle is already endorsed as LMS of choice for Veterinary Internet Content Exchange. Commercial solutions with almost the same features /Blackboard/ are available.)

Moodle 2.0 and Community Hubs
A new Moodle Learning Management System (Moodle 2.0, 2010) now comes with the finalized Community Hub Framework (Moodle.org, Development:Community hub, 2010). Through such hubs, users from all participating institutions (each can have one or more independent Moodle sites and more/all can use the same Moodle installation) can easily find courses or communities of practice from  partners in their network. Educators from different institutions can collaborate on course development or share course templates. Community hub framework supports a range of scenarios such as courses that are public or private, free or paid. Therefore the community hub supports the following scenario: