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by Helen Foster.  

I'm pleased to announce a new course on moodle.org - Teaching and Learning with Moodle!

According to Tomaz Lasic, Moodle HQ's Education Researcher, in his welcome message,

The main aims of the space are to:

• provide a clear, synthesised and relatively gentle 'intro to Moodle' to new users in education and training environments


• serve as an organised point for great ideas and resources for new and experienced users alike


• become a generator and repository of Moodle-related (in)formal research in the use and design of Moodle

Be sure to check out Moodle recipes for educators - a community cookbook! for ideas on using Moodle in education, and feel free to add your own!

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L&D plus TLC: Elearning at the Samaritans from Verity Gough

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by Helen Foster.  

The official Moodle Partner for the Czech Republic, PragoData Consulting, Ltd.,

in cooperation with Brno University of Technology (VUT), Technical University of Ostrava (VŠB-TU), Faculty of Education MU (PedF MU), Faculty of Arts MU (FF MU) and EUNIS-CZ
would like to invite you to a conference MoodleMoot.cz 2010.

Date: June 10 – 11, 2010

Venue: Brno University of Technology, Antonínská 548/1, 601 90 Brno, Czech republic
For more information about the MoodleMoot.cz 2010 please visit http://moodlemoot.cz

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by Helen Foster.  

Moodle is not only used by schools, colleges and universities around the world - an increasing number of healthcare organisations are putting it to good use too!

The Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in south east London, UK, has been using Moodle for two years. Their site now has almost 200 courses and over 3,000 active users.

According to Jeff Burge, Learning & Development lead for Oxleas, "We manage all of our statutory and mandatory training, Continuing Professional Development and e-learning with Moodle, and it has been a huge success for us."

"As a public body our performance is measured by, amongst other things, our achievement against certain governance standards. The NHS Litigation Authority awarded us a full score for our Level 2 assessment in January of this year, and also highly commended our systems, helped in no small part by our utilisation of Moodle."

For further details of Oxleas' success story, and for more experiences of Moodle in healthcare, please see the discussion Moodle in healthcare in the Moodle stories forum.

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University to make decision on Blackboard replacement from Amelie Hecht

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Die freie Lernplattform Moodle from Robert Seetzen

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by Helen Foster.  

Thanks to everyone who took part in the Cool Course Competition and congratulations to our prizewinners:

Best application of Moodle activities

1st - Stuart Mealor
Joint 2nd - Deneka MacDonald and Joan Queralt

Best use of media

1st - Edward Pickering-Symes
2nd - Maryel Mendiola
3rd - Maryel Mendiola

Primary (ages 6-12)

1st - Christine Pannen
2nd - Mary Cooch
3rd - Frédéric Quay

Secondary (ages 12-18)

1st - Martin Kurz
Joint 2nd - Carlos Nunes and František Tumajer

Tertiary (ages 18+)

1st - Janina Dewitz
2nd - Martina Majorová
Joint 3rd - Gerry Jenkins and Maryel Mendiola

For links to each of the prizewinning courses, please visit the Cool Course Competition site.

All courses entered in the competition are available under a Creative Commons license and can currently be downloaded from the competition entries database. The courses will be included in the moodle.org community hub in Moodle 2.0.