This year, MoodleNet has gone from idea to code. In fact, we’ll be launching a Minimum Viable Product in January 2019 to gather feedback from around a hundred testers. That process will start in the New Year.

In a world of agile development, where speed-to-market is everything, why has it taken a year for MoodleNet to emerge? Hopefully, this post (and its many links) will help explain some of that. We agree with Abraham Lincoln’s philosophy when he said: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”

MoodleNet is a new open social media platform for educators, focused on professional development and open content. It aims to sustainably empower communities of educators to share and learn from each other to improve the...