There has been quite a bit of media coverage recently regarding the adoption of Moodle in the Australian Higher Education sector - see:

• Monash Uni moves e-learning to Moodle
  Computerworld
• In the Moodle: two more unis make switch
  Campus Review (login required for full article)

February edition of the Open Source Newsletter
The first "new-look" edition for 2011.

Moodlemoot AU 2011 dates and venue announced!

NetSpot is pleased to announce that Moodlemoot AU 2011 will be held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre at Darling Harbour from Sunday the 17th to Wednesday the 20th of July 2011.

November edition of Open Source Newsletter
The last edition for 2010.

NetSpot welcomes aboard Mark Bailye

NetSpot Pty Ltd (NetSpot) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Mark Bailye to the position of Consultant within the growing Moodle team.

Read the full announcement here.

The University of Ballarat moves to Moodle

Late last year, the University of Ballarat (UB) announced a move to Moodle from their current LMS (Blackboard CE) with Moodle being its sole LMS from semester 1, 2011.  It was a clear recommendation to move to Moodle with comments in their final report such as the following:

Moodle has no shareholders to please. The Moodle community shapes the development of the software in the interests of education, not profit. UB would be free to modify Moodle as it wishes, and run as many instances of it as required. During the trial, it was found to be simpler and faster to use than Blackboard (including our trial of Learn 9.0) and students were overwhelmingly in favour of it. It integrates well with other systems and adheres strongly to industry standards.