We’ve got a winner!

And the chosen platform for EduKitchen is… drumroll… Moodle!!

It’s been an interesting process starting the initial EduKitchen project with the assumption that Moodle would be best, and then working through elements of the design process questioning wether WordPress might serve as a better, more flexible system for addressing the diverse needs and goals of the the project and expected users. But, we’ve since circled around and Lawrence Liang, one of the individuals behind EduKitchen and our Indian partner for this project, has chosen Moodle. While, we had been developing a Moodle and WordPress option in parallel, Moodle was will be able to support the development of courses by instructors in a more user friendly way, while also providing numerous ways to structure individual courses and lessons that meet the needs of instructors, but also meets the instructor where they are in their tech abilities.

Now that the platform has finally been decided, the GIEP Flexible Learning team has been working at successfully installing Edukitchen onto the Centre for Internet and Society server. We are also looking at how we can imitate some of WordPress’s strengths within moodle and are still aware that depending the projects needs, a companion site through WordPress may be necessary to help showcase the content and community creations outside of the Moodle platform. Until then, our team is hard at work at finding open source courses, learner user testing, planning for a meeting with future instructors, and creating our own course which has learners utilize their senses to explore their citiies and communities, then share it with the EduKitchen community.