What is Moodle?
A bit of history about Moodle
Moodle was founded in 2003 by Australian PhD student Martin Dougiamas. Moodle is an open source project, which means that anyone with the right coding skills can contribute to the code that runs Moodle.
http://moodle.org is the biggest Moodle site in the world; the The Open University has the second largest Moodle site in the world with over 250,000 active students. The OU supports the Moodle project with additional components, plugins and coding expertise. The Moodle core now exceeds a million lines of code!
As these statistics show, Moodle is a global success. The package is used extensively around the world in schools, colleges and universities.