Julian Ridden
Julian Ridden (AKA Moodleman) works as a Consultant and Evangelist for Moodle.com.au, Australia’s premier Moodle partner.
Julian has more than 12 years experience in education (specifically in online e-learning) with a wide range of both corporate clients and educational institutions as well as experience in project management, systems implementation, networking, support and training.
Julian is an experienced IT Manager within the scholastic sector as well as a proven ICT Integrator in both boys and girls education. He also has worked for many years in adult education with experience in both the corporate and VET sectors. This knowledge of the IT world both behind the server door and at the education coalface (the classroom) has provided him with a diverse skills base from which to pull when consulting and training clients.
Julian currently sits on the AIS IT Managers committee representing IT managers from independent schools around NSW. He also is a founding member of the Sydney Moodle User Group.
Julian regularly speaks at Moodle and education conferences both locally and abroad. He is known as a passionate, well informed and entertaining speaker who can provide insightful and thought provoking presentations.
Moodle: past, present & future
Julian will speak about the major upcoming revision to the world's most popular open source learning Management System, Moodle 2 and where the moodle developers and community are headed. But where did we come from and what's going on in the moodle world today? Moodle: past, present and future is a snapshot view of the moodleverse.
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Thanks to Nick Cross, Aarnet and MITIE for filming, post-production and hosting.
