About the Authors

Jason Cole, Ph.D is the Chief Operating Officer for Remote-Learner, US, an official Moodle partner providing hosting, support, and instructional design services. Jason oversees Remote-Learner's daily operations, providing technical services to over 1,100 clients, from small non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies.

Jason started using Moodle at San Francisco State University in 2003 when he led the transition from Blackboard to Moodle. Later, he led the implementation of Moodle at the Open University in the UK, currently one of the top three largest Moodle deployments in the world. Over the ensuing two years he successfully architected a system that currently supports over 225,000 student users with multiple enrollments.

Jason is the co-author of Using Moodle (c2006 & 2007) published by O'Reilly Community Press, and has been the organizer of several successful Moodle Conferences in the US and UK.

I would like to thank my wife, Jeanne, for taking the leap and writing this book with me. Her dedication was an inspiration and her support made the book possible.

Jeanne Cole is a Senior Project Manager for Remote-Learner US. She is an experienced Moodle course developer and project manager who has migrated hundreds of courses from other learning management systems to Moodle, as well as created courses from client materials. She also has experience managing projects applying multiple open source products to meet a wide variety of client needs.

Prior to her Moodle career, Jeanne worked as a project engineer/manager for contractors in the US and UK.

I would like to thank both of my very experienced and knowledgeable co-authors for giving me the opportunity to work with them on this book. A special thanks to my husband, Jason, for his never-ending patience and support.

Gavin Henrick has worked with technology in business, learning, and development for over ten years. He has been consulting on using Moodle, Mahara, and other open-source applications for the last four years. He has run several websites and runs his own blog (www.somerandomthoughts.com). He is a regular speaker at a number of Moodlemoots and conferences on the use of Moodle in the corporate space focusing on practical examples of usage.

Gavin recently joined the Moodle Partner Remote-Learner and is based out of Canada working with a range of organizations in Canada and Europe.

Through working on this book he has learned so much on the diverse and innovative ways of using Moodle to support learning, training, and development.

Firstly I would like to thank Enovation Solutions and Remote-Learner for the opportunity to work with and learn from some fantastic people over the last few years.

I would also like to thank all of the participating organizations for their generosity in contributing the case studies. The case studies in the book will provide inspiration to others as they consider rolling out Moodle.

I would like to thank the Packt editorial team and the book reviewers who provided excellent feedback and direction throughout the editing of the book. You have certainly helped make this a better book.

I would like to thank my co-authors who have taught me so much about writing and about new approaches to using Moodle.

A special thanks to Martin Dougiamas for his vision and dedication to learning and Moodle.

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