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March 2007March 01, 2007http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=101&parent=367 by James Corpe.To OpenLearn Team. Thank you for your season's greetings, have only just accessed your message. Having just completed an OU Diplomer in Earth Sciences I am now waiting to start my next OU courses in Septmber. In the mean time I am finding your material on OpenLearn very helpful in building up to my next round of topics. Well done with your sites and keep up the good work. James Corpe Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 03, 2007http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/03/vle-project-2-completed.html  Going by the transactions from the latest learning trial using Moodle, here at Bromley I feel certain that I will be looking at another successful outcome. There were 23 students taking part of which only 16 eventually completed the project and between them accounted for over 12,000 transactions in four weeks. For all those who did manage to stay the course, I presented feedback assessment for collaboration, and there is without doubt overwhelming support from them as well as a sense of achievement. However for students who’s engagement / attendance proved patchy before the project, the new approach seemed to be of little positive influence.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/01/learning-in-virtual-world.html  Just lately a lot of my time has been taken up with Second Life, if you have yet to try virtual worlds then let me recommend the experience. My principle reason for the whole venture is to see how this new semi-immersed virtual reality can be utilised for teaching and learning, even as an extension to our continuing work with Moodle. On Saturday 17th of Feb at 5pm I will begin hosting some presentation trials that will be looking at the Linden Script, that’s the language in SL, and comparing it with other main stream computer languages. So if you are free around that time and would like to come over for a short and small class and supply us with some feedback in another reality just click here and I will look forward to seeing you. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/01/video-beats-audio-star.html  At the start of this term decided to try using my PDA to record parts of my lectures, and these recording are in range of 3 to 4 minutes. The particular course that I selected for this is my High Level Programming for level 4 students, and to date I have made about 40 recordings. But I thought I would tryout something of an experiment by making these recording available in two forms, one being a straightforward mp3, while the other would feature a speaking CrazyTalk avatar. Although the speech content of the two media are identical, the CrazyTalk avatar version has attracted almost twice the number of viewings! Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/12/using-moodle-to-deliver-self-fi  I am hopeful that Moodle here at bromley College will begin to fulfil a commercial role following an enquiry the other day from company who required a course in Website Design for one of their employees. I have been running a very successful self financing course “HTML and JavaScript for Website Designers” for some time now, however it does require a minimum of 12 students to be viable, with the next one likely to start in January. This timescale was however too long, and I was asked if it could be run as a distance learning package, well maybe if I ran it through Moodle. As this will effectively be a trial, I have given the course for free in return for a comprehensive feedback and review. In fact when the boss came along to lookover the set-up, he signed himself up as well. The course can now run at the pace of the students, they will provide me feedback via the Journal, have access to resources using Block Folders, submit completed exercises as Assignments and keep in touch using Forums and Chat. Hey I may even be able to use Second-Life!!! I’ll let you know how it goes. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/podcast-or-videocast-which-do-y  Do you podcast you lectures? . I have started this in a small way but from the system logs the results were not encouraging. Anyway I started to give the whole idea some serious thought recently. From my own perspective, if am driving or travelling on public transport, then yes I would listen to a podcast, however if was sat in front of a computer, then I would appreciate something more visual. The feasibility of videoing and editing a whole lecture on a regular basis would for me be unrealistic. But do you really need the whole lecture, well no, and all I record usually are selected parts in audio using my PDA. Anyway I decided to pop one of my audio tracks into one of CrazyTalks avatars, the result, good, judging from the Moodle logs, the media is definitely getting a better response. If you would like to take a look just click here. Please feel free to feedback on your own experiences by posting to this blog.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/free-learning-resources-from-ou  free and open educational resourcesIf like myself you are always on the lookout for some quality e-Learning materials, then you simply have to take a look at the Open Universities Moodle site OpenLearn. The resources here are free to use and are of an excellent quality, well done OU. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/time-for-second-life.html  Just recently I decided that the time had come to put my money where my enthusiasm was, so I upgraded my membership in Second Life and bought some land and see how it could be used in conjunction with my work on Moodle. In fact I bought a small island from diddster.com, these are really nice properties and the company extremely helpful. In fact the whole experience was a bit surreal, as I had to leave my wife cruising around Diddsters Daydream island complex, made more stressful for her as she had not used Second life before, looking for a vacant plot and making the purchase. While all this was happening I was watching through a colleague’s avatar at work (Whoops), keep that bit to yourself. Anyway Jinxster of Diddster turned up and gave some very timely advice and we all had an extremely useful three way conversation. I have since acquired a building for my island (Shimmer Island) and begun accumulating some tools; whiteboard and media player, both of which were actually free. If you click on my island thumb nail at the top of this post, you will get a bigger picture.Anyway I am off to my alternative reality now, but do stay tuned to see how things go. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/11/value-added-moodle.html  Keen as I always am to make use of our vle for course delivery, I am also very keen to find evidence on its effectiveness with regard to student outcomes. One of the courses that see particularly heavy use of the vle here at Bromley is my BTEC National Software Development. Just the other day I am informed that it has attracted highest Value Added in the country for this course, wow. How much of that is due to the vle, difficult to say, but I was asked to put my views in writing; 50 words! Anyway here is my response. We have an experienced subject specialist team delivering a wide range of software technologies that include VBA, VB6, C, Java, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP and SQL, and find attracts motivated students with an ambition for Software Development.Our adoption and increasing use of the Moodle vle has further allowed us to explore a variety of teaching methods, that facilitate our students the opportunity for personalisation, to extend their learning beyond the traditional physical boundaries and time constraints of class based lectures.A bit Just a tad more that 50. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/10/second-life-from-dartmouth.html I hav e just looged out of the first Second Life conference for teachers, I think. I got into the conference from a French restaurant in Dartmouth via rather a weak wifi signal, in fact I am Blogging from here still. There were plenty of people and some interesting proposals for future projects, its all looking extremely promising, all in all a great show. Well done Optimus Paul.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-for-educators.html  This week, I guess with no great surprise, I find that those people at Google, who no doubt have been keeping a watchful eye on our surfing habits, have made an encouraging response by launching Google for Educators. My first impression is that this has the makings of a powerful and valuable resource that already features a growing repository of materials, tools, ideas and stories. I was particularly taken by the invitation that we can upload video clips, a timely offer, given that I have spoken to a few people recently who are showing some concern as to where they can place such materials given the limits that seem to exist for storage in some institutes. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/social-networking-so-far.html  I have some satisfaction and surprises reviewing the way in which my plans for introducing a social networking forum are working out with the courses this year. I have given the rounded figures in the table. A couple of points come to mind for me: 1 by far the most active group is the BTEC National General, but this is a year 2 group, so they already know each other well by now. 2 Though the HND group seem to have shown more activity than the BTEC National Software, in fact less then half, 9/23, of the HND have yet to actually post their own details, does age make you more cautious in these forums? Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/podcasting.html  Last week I decided to start using a podcast approach as part of my regular Moodle material. I have incorporated these as part of my level 4 groups work in Object Oriented Design. The course is delivered as a series of lectures accompanied by detailed course notes and assessed using a portfolio approach of exercises. It’s the presentation in class of these exercises that I have decided to make available as mp3’s. I have installed them all into their own folder and students access them through Moodles Add a resource/Display a directory feature. I decided against the usually highly mobile podcast approach, as I know very few of the students actually own one. I shall be sure to report on their popularity and utility in due course Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/tell-and-post.html  I started three new level 3 groups today and as a first exercise decided they should begin to make use of Moodle by posting lifestyle styles and ambitions to a forum. Postings could include links, particularly if they had Myspace, some did. I then asked them to reply to at least 2 postings, but not if they were already friends; I encourage this in support of the need to establish a virtual presence, after all given the diminishing requirement of funding bodies, students are only actually at College 2.5 days a week, so what happens the rest of the week? Well maybe it can be virtual, lets shall see. A significant proportion of postings were as I anticipated in youth code; medium is the message! I am reassured however given recent finding by Bev Plester and Claire Wood at Coventry Uni. Its early days but be assured I shall be collecting and posting feedback from the groups on these and other online activities. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/myspace-induction.html  The HND course officially started today with an induction. I had an hour to present myself and courses to them. This year has been really different though rather than explain courses in detail with references to handouts, assignments and grading, I talked almost exclusively about the part Moodle would play as a delivery platform in support of the collaborative leaning framework and assessment strategies that proved successful in last year’s trial. Upon ending the presentation rather than give out advice on pre-start of courses reading, I asked them to get a Myspace account, fill out all the categories and be sure to post comments to at least two from others. My plans are that the Social networking aspects of Myspace will not only form the first point for an ongoing trend of collaboration but be the foundation in forming an online presence and identity. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/09/save-n-forget.html  Things Moodle-wise here at Bromley are looking OK for the start of the coming academic year. The new vle is up and running and the old version for 0506 is now only available to staff. Just the other day I found that I am to be teaching on the OO Development and OO Applications courses (that’s all about objects to us programming nerds). The courses uses Java and so I decided to begin populating Moodle with some of my Java CourseGenie materials, but was unsure where they were, home, work, CD, usb? Then I remembered that I had uploaded all that stuff to our DSpace content repository, great, logged in found them straight away no problems, of courses no folders to navigate, because there are none, meta-data discovery is the way. Uploaded the content as a Moodle Scorm Activity, finished, isn’t this the way it should be though? Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/08/xbox-on-syllabus.html  I have a sense or resurgent enthusiasm again with regard to the place of games in teaching: re my posting to this blog on 3DML and Robocode, when today I read that Microsoft are to offer XNA Game Studio Express, a free consumer version of Xbox tools that will run on a PC. In fact my interest in games has taken an upward leap after discovering the Sleeper Curve in Steven Johnson’s book ‘Everything bad is good for you’ ( I can recommend it). The suggestion is that our pop cultures game playing has contributed to our ability in managing rising complexity and cognitive demands. I wonder what impact the mention of xbox programming would have on the syllabus?Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/08/coalescing-virtually.html  I have been working on plans to encourage students to adopt the idea of virtual learning communities for the coming academic year. But to be realistic there has to be some sense of virtual value! It occurs to me, that the usual start of course ice breakers of ‘who I am, where I’ve been, going, gone wish I hadn’t and wish I had’ , type soon forgotten presentations, are evolved out by a dynamic, sustained and even organic online presence through myspace accounts, accessed from the vle. I naturally intend being part of all this as you can see here. In developing an on-line presence, I have some confidence the social networking aspects will act as a mechanism promoting the emergence of groups to eventually coalesce into virtual communities; eventually, though according to Rena Palloff they can happen almost instantaneously. Interesting times ahead. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/interactive-white-boards-for-fr  I discovered a really promising web based application the other day that was promoted as an interactive whiteboard, not surprisingly it’s called Virtual White Board. I registered for an account and though you do not at this stage get all the fancy clipart and sound clips etc; its still in beta, I was impressed with the functionality. Here at college interactive white-boards, probably due to the cost just do not seem to have happened, though all our computing rooms do all have a master PC and projector. Using Virtual-whiteboard you can include text, images, files and notes, freehand drawing plus some symbols and clipart. Users i.e. students, can be invited in and authenticated via their email address; if they are remote, then chat is also available. Sessions can be saved, printed or exported as an image . My impressions at the moment are that Virtual White Board will be a nice compliment to the various tools that I am currently deploying through Moodle and intend trialling it in the coming academic year. If you decide to give Virtual White Board a try yourself please feel free to get back and make a comment for us all.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/elgging.html  In the last few weeks I have been taking a close look at elgg and trying to decide whether to promote it as part of my courses in the coming year. I set-up my account and began trawling through the various options and facilities, and came to the conclusion that it will be ideal for creating a personalised learning space. While on this subject, there is a whole debate going on it seems around personalised learning at the moment, so if you are interested in getting clarification you may like to browse this standards site; complete with quotes from David Miliband who started the whole thing, well almost. I don’t know about you, but with certain people, whenever I get into discussions on this one, the whole session seems to drift into customisation, which in turn takes you up the road of accessibility, definitely not the same thing. Anyway things could get even more interesting with elgg from my perspective, because it will also facilitate my ambitions for learning communities, which brings it very much into my sights regarding the JISC bid. So with that all said elgg is on.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/nine-mystery-guests.html  Well the JISC bid event with our partner colleges went really well, and now I am looking forward to seeing the whole project hopefully come to life in the New Year. The web-cast also worked and our network manager informs me that we had 10 IP addresses connected, though one of those was him, so I guess that leaves 9. Following my request for the web-cast to be set-up, a first for Bromley College I must say, it was reassuring to have evidence of it actually being used, and given the technical issues that had to be overcome, its top marks and thanks to the network team for that. While you may be thinking that this blog is likely to go quite given it’s the end of the academic year, I will now have the task of helping to write the actual bid and on a completely separate tack, preparing for a new venture as we develop our plans in forming a partnership with a commercial company in the deployment of the Moodle VLE beyond our more usual FE and HE sectors. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/change-of-stream.html  Just a last minute change to our streaming of the JISC bid proposal here at Bromley College this afternoon, the address is now http://keyhole.bromley.ac.uk please feel free to drop in.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/live-stream.html  Tomorrow we shall be presenting our proposal details to partner colleges for the JISC bid along the lines of ‘access to online content, and tools to support collaborative working and personalised learning experiences’. The network team have been working hard getting my request for streaming to work and this afternoon I saw it in action. If you are interested in looking in on the event, then click here between 2 and 5 gmt. If you do manage to view the webcast I would be interested in any feedback to this blog, for now I have a few finishing touches to the presentations to get on with, so I’ll sign off. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/virtual-presence.html  A productive weekend with regard to Moodle and the bid. I completed the presentations, five in all for this coming Thursday, which not surprisingly has changed the agenda a tad. After some thought on the subject of on-line presence for participating staff, I have decided to use Myspace as the medium, its popular, easy to use and most will have heard of it already. I had seriously considered elgg, and had it already been integrated into Moodle would probably have plumbed for that, maybe if we get the bid and moodle-elgg integration runs to timescale then there will be some considerable mileage in using it for students. I met with the network team today and the possibility of us being able to stream the event look very promising, so stay tuned for the address of the webcast.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/dolly-2-and-bid.html  I went along to a LAMS event at the Knowledge Lab in London this week, and apart from being pleased to meet up with others that I only seem to see at these gatherings, I must say that some of the improvements with version 2 (Dolly), are I feel certain going to make it available to a much wider user base. Among the new features are a file manager, rich text editor and tab dialog boxes for sequence components, all good user friendly stuff. As LAMS is now integrated with Moodle, I have given it a trial to good effect with one of my own courses, and enthusiastic about running some more at the college in the coming year. Much of my spare time this week has been taken up in preparation for the July 13th Conference afternoon here at Bromley. This will be an opportunity to present the detail and discuss the bid with both our own staff and partner colleges, so I am looking forward to that. Tomorrow I am meeting with our network team, because I hope to stream the event for anyone who cannot make it along on the day, I will be sure to post an address on this blog, so if you are interested in having look, stay in touch for that one, must get on for now though. Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2006/07/training-by-capture.html  For some time I have been working on diversifying the Moodle training here at Bromley. My original three hour intro session did present some problems for staff on a full timetable, so we cut down to two hours, but meant not everything was covered. So my plan has been to reduce the content and course time, but deliver other features through multimedia, then everyone can select their training requirements in the fashion of a Moodle training type supermarket. I have put a few of these together, but here is the latest format that I am almost certainly going to run with. My intention is to make these available to a wider audience through this blogs video block on the right. Please feel free to let me have views and feedbackKeywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=63257&parent=29 by Martin Counihan.The main disadvantage to holding a MoodleMoot on 22-26 October is that it would be in one of the busiest parts of the term in most universities. It would therefore exclude a lot of university staff who have teaching commitments. Keywords: conferences, moodle, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=66110&parent=29 by maritza medina.yes Keywords: conferences, moodle, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 06, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=66264 by Martin Dougiamas.In an effort to get a wider range of testing on Moodle 1.8 beta I've upgraded this site to use it. Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 08, 2007http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/03/project-leon.html  Starting Monday 12th March ULCC are running London's first Online Conference looking at Web2 Technologies supporting 'personalisation' called LEON (London e-Learning Online Network). There are a number of strands to this project,and my own here at Bromley is looking to the potential of Second Life, where students can share a 3D space and presence in real time. The current project features a library with access for individual or group study, links to web sites, pod casts, movies, documents and virtual page turning books. Presentations and lectures can be delivered to groups or individuals using white boards, media players all delivered by the lecturer. The potential improvements for social engagement above that offered by the more usual first world experience of synchronous, asynchronous chat and forum seem boundless. If you are interested in joining us the go to the website and contact Philip Butler for enrollment details.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 12, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=63257&parent=29 by Sean Keogh.That is very true - but for this year I think we have no option but to choose a date when *the most* people can get to the moot. It is far too late now for us to arrange multiple moots. Anyway, please mail Jason with your thoughts. Keywords: conferences, moodle, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 16, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67038&parent=30 by Ralf Hilgenstock.More than 250 participants are coming to Duisburg for German Moodle Moot/Conference. Keywords: conferences, moodle, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 18, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67186&parent=30 by antonella berriolo.Hi, Is anybody going to the moodleparty inside Expoelearning (http://www.aefol.com/expoelearning2007/programa.asp) on fryday the 23th of march (in Barcelona, Spain)? I will be there friday and saturday (and try to give a quick glance to the fair on thursday) It will be nice to meet and have a coffee together. Antonella Keywords: conferences, moodle, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 19, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67227 by Martin Dougiamas.Time is running out for student programmers to apply for projects under the exciting Google Summer of Code 2007 project. Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67228&parent=30 by Martin Dougiamas.Time is running out for student programmers to apply for projects under the exciting Google Summer of Code 2007 project. Keywords: moodle, news, usingmoodle Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 20, 2007Please, take a look at the LIVE-MINI PAPER we are writing about all that. I posted it into Moodle Buzz, but they deleted it. By the way, I have found some interesting criticism about Moodle inside the Moodle Community, please take a look at it (you can enter as guest): Something Rotten in the State of Moodle? More criticism on Moodle 1.7 and Moodle 1.8 The Moodle trademark as adjective and noun Moodle Cease-and-Desist on Schoolforge-UK Moodle Partner Ethics Questioned Moodle Partner Ethics Questioned Cont... Island of Misfit If you love Moodle, you'd better read all that.
Posted by Moodle News | 5 comment(s) March 21, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=740 Type: Web article From: Ken Udas Published: 12 March 2007 Recently UCLA selected Moodle as their common collaboration and learning environment (CCLE) and decided to remain engaged with the higher education community and the Sakai Foundation to pursue interoperability. I talked with Ruth Sabean who serves as the assistant vice provost for educational technology in UCLA’s College of Letters and Science and director of educational technology in the university’s Office of Information Technology, to learn more about their decision to go with Moodle. Sabean is responsible for developing strategic educational technology plans and initiatives for UCLA that will improve the student educational experience through technology. From 1993–2002, she was the assistant director for educational technology in UCLA’s Office of Instructional Development, following positions directing and managing academic computing services at Cornell University and UCLA, and an early career in software development. She is an active member of EDUCAUSE, Seminars on Academic Computing (SAC), and the New Media Consortium (NMC). She has served on the boards of SAC, the NMC, and the EDUCAUSE Advisory Committee on Teaching & Learning. Sabean holds an M.S. degree in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh. Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 22, 2007http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94&parent=402 by janice hingston.Just to show that someone reads what you write in the newsletter, John Thanks - I found something on Latin here...also, I did not even know that we had an astronomy group! The Gutenberg project(see above link) recently helped me with my Dutch language/history/folk costume searches...raised the issue of copyright which has recently been aired on R4 and is becoming topical and adversarial? Some astronomy stuff listed. Might be worth talking JSTOR with the local library - they tell me it is of interest to them to get us material but they are learning too: we might be helping them form a case for the facility... I like the thought of some of Farnborough's U3A using fora (or foroids if you prefer I was involved with an exploratory one for OU French some years ago and it was most useful to make contact with other langauage learners ... I understand what you mean about the trauma of using new forums...that's better Happy hunting, Janice PS Looks like I don't get a chance to view this before I post - hope it's OK ! Oops - wrong again!! Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) http://moodletraining.blogspot.com/2007/03/vles-and-poor-attendance.html  I was surprised by the concerns expressed in the recent HE Forum about VLE’s leading to reduced attendance. And so an emailed was circulated to a national list, not by myself I must add, to see if this is generally seen as a problem. The responses indicate the opposite. You will find a link here to some of the responses that you may find useful. The question posted was:- Using a VLE might lead to a reduction in attendance. Does anybody on the list have to deal with this worry? Is it true? How do you counter it? Please feel free to inform us of your own views on this subject by replying to this post.Keywords: moodle, moodlejournal, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 23, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=67627&parent=30 by Sean Keogh.Copied from moodlemoot.org: It's Official. MoodleMoot '07 is Oct 23-25! We finally have confirmation of the dates. MoodleMoot '07 will take place on Oct 23-25, 2007 at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Thanks to Bernie and Niall at the OU for securing the times and rooms for us.Keywords: conferences, moodle, news Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 24, 2007http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=94&parent=403 by John Stone.Janice - thanks for this, that is one heck of a link to type in, if one ever had to. I've had a quick look, and it obviously merits much further investigation whatever one's interest. Being retired, all I need is time. I'll ask about JSTOR. One might also investigate adding a forum to our own U3A website. J Posted by Moodle News | 0 comment(s) March 26, 2007http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=750 Type: Web article From: Ron Zimmerman Published: 27 March 2007 Many students new to online learning express feelings of isolation and lack a personal connection to the course. A LMS can have an impact on these feelings of isolation. Moodle does a better job of creating a sense of community through the use of identity building tools than Blackboard. |
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