A Private Cloud-Based Smart Learning Environment Using Moodle for Universities

Moodle is an open source learning management system that helps universities host the courses online through standalone or a in a private cloud environment that helps the educational institutions grow exponentially with all the facilities Moodle can offer. This chapter identifies the feasibility of a university to host their courses in Moodle which runs under a private cloud environment. This chapter explains various difficulties incurred by the public cloud and other standalone servers. This chapter also analyzes various metrics towards smarter learning methodologies and observes that the learning curve of the users is considerably increasing, and hence, such models are suitable for universities with several thousands of users. This chapter proposes a method to deploy Moodle for a smarter learning environment in universities of huge strength.