AulaWeb, Web-based Learning as a Commodity - The Experience of the University of Genova

Starting from the academic year 2005/2006, the University of Genova has foster the use of AulaWeb, a virtual environment based on the open source software Moodle, to promote the introduction of web-based technologies in the traditional educational process. We describe the experience of the past four years presenting the approach we have followed to encourage the use of AulaWeb among faculties, the numbers of users we have reached, an Instructional Design course we have organised to promote educational technology.