moodle

verb

1. To dawdle aimlessly, to idle time away.

   “Over a sonata by Schubert he — well, I suppose I must not say that he moodled, or maundered, or anything of that sort.”

   “The Poet moodles (from Brenda Ueland's If You Want to Write). She fools around, meanders, and takes time for feelings and not just ideas.”

   “I cannot begin to count the number of times I have moodled, set a sermon aside, often in midstream, and taken a walk through the church gardens, or around the city block, even caught a brief nap on the study sofa; in other words, I have let my mind lie fallow, and then returned to the task with inspiration renewed.”

   “She moodled all day and all night. Hundreds of tiny notions streamed from her head and ideas bounced back and forth, but no real possibilities formed.”

2. To use a Moodle, either as a teacher or as a student.

   “Over the years, many teachers have developed instructional content using Moodle (anyone who Moodles is a Moodler!).”

   “Happy Moodling!”

   “One day, classroom students are accessing the Cloud as well as Skyping, and the next day they are Moodling.”

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Moodle.

   “Better yet, take advantage of shared drives, moodles, and blogs as online resources.”

   “We could equally explore the potential of wikis, drupals, moodles and other software for reflecting on performance making.”

   “Share what has been created in a binder or consider high-tech collaboration tools such as blogs, wikis, or moodles.”

   “The institute continuously strives to host training programs for teachers and students to develop and learn course contents using 'moodles' available for teaching and learning activities.”

   “The students do not only use smartphones and social media for entertainment, but they use them for information sharing, content sharing, academic peer group discussion, accessing learning websites and applications, and for accessing moodles.”

2. Modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment.

   “Many Moodles exist throughout the education sector.”

   “Moodles are relatively new Web 2.0 tools, thus there is not an abundance of empirical research regarding them.”

   “Interviewee C did a one-hour lecture to introduce the DGBL topic using Moodles – a blind learning approach.”