Martin Dougiamas is best known as the founder of Moodle, the popular free course management system used by millions of teachers in 200 countries around the world. Martin commenced working alone on Moodle in 1999 and first released the code onto an unsuspecting internet in 2001.
As the executive director of Moodle Pty Ltd in Perth, Western Australia, he now leads a community of software developers at the heart of the Moodle project and the global network of 45 Moodle Partner service companies that help provide funding for this independent open source software project.
Martin has a mixed academic background with post-graduate degrees in Computer Science and Education, and continues to focus on researching how educators approach internet-based education. His major goal for the future is to improve the quality of education by encouraging social constructionist and collaborative practices within online learning communities.