Its conference season again - been too busy to attend any so far this year but went to this one to look at the Moodle Individual Learning Plan.
I was the only Blackboard college there (all the rest are Moodle) so I was popular 
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When we went round the room discusing what we had been up to in the last few months a few interesting (for me anyway) points came up.
- The nearest college to mine has just appointed 2 new staff as content creators - their main job is to get material online for staff (be that as just improved notes all the way up to interactive elearning objects) not surprisingly it is a service that is proving very popular with lecturing staff.
- 3 of the Colleges present were planning a new installation of moodle that applicants and potential students could register themselves onto. Giving the students a taste of what they can expect when they join.
- Similar to this one college has started setting up "courses" for the business support areas to hold documents communicate etc (this is something we do to a limited extent - I have to be careful about treading on toes due to our staff extranet).
- Finally there were the colleges that reported Inspectors are now expecting real eLearning (ie staff have to have activitys, differentiation etc all the things you would see in a classroom, online) rather than being satisfied with a big online fileing cabinet.
Right next post will cover the speakers at the conference
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