On Friday, September 16, 2022, in the Auditorium of the Eugenides Foundation, the Senate of the University of Piraeus held the ceremony of awarding a Doctorate to Martin Dougiamas, founder and creator of Moodle.

The announcement ceremony ended with his speech: Open Online Education for Everyone in which he explained his worldview behind the creation of Moodle, the most widespread digital education platform internationally, with the greatest recognition and impact on all levels of Education.
He was 23 years old when the first version of Moodle became available on August 20, 2002, and today, 20 years later, it is used by more than 330 million users in 242 countries, hosting more than 42 million digital courses with approximately 2 billion student enrolments.
Inspired by his own life, when he was attending his first lessons, as an elementary student, remotely with the School of the Air program, he designed and developed the open software Moodle, an environment for creating and making available digital courses through the internet, with the ambition for Moodle to be free of charge to all teachers and students.
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Moodle code is freely available for retrieving, modifying and adding new features, making it the largest open source development effort in Education worldwide. His vision is broad and inclusive education, creating "citizens" in the sense of Plato, whom he quoted extensively.
The free availability of the platform makes it accessible to all and breaks down barriers of language, origin and resources, creating a unity that the world generally lacks. The ability for users to modify it and add new features as necessary makes it alive and sustainable giving it the potential to evolve in perpetuity.
Martin Dougiamas holds a B.Sc. (Computer Science, Honours) and MSc (Science Education, Distinction) from Curtin University and is a member of the Academic Council of the Department of Digital Systems and the Postgraduate Program in E-Learning offered since 2006 by the Department of Digital Systems.