Categories

• General
• ICT
  • MacOS
  • Scripting
• PBL
• Research
  • E-learning
  • Games & simulations
  • ICT integration
  • mLearning
  • SOLE
• Teacher Education
• Teaching
  • Courses
  • DocsCom
• Technical

Archives

• August 2010
• June 2010
• May 2010
• April 2010
• January 2010
• October 2009
• May 2009
• April 2009
• March 2009
• March 2008
• October 2007
• August 2006
• December 2005
• November 2005
• October 2005
• September 2005
• August 2005
• July 2005
• June 2005
• May 2005
• April 2005
• March 2005
• February 2005
• January 2005
• December 2004
• November 2004
• October 2004
• April 2004
• January 2004

Admin

• Log in
• Entries RSS
• Comments RSS
• WordPress.org

• Links

  • USQ page

• Travel

  • Europe 2006
  • Europe 2008
  • Europe 2009
  • Photo galleries

Kathy Munoz & Joan Van Duzer at Humboldt State University have reported on a direct comparison of Blackboard & Moodle in Blackboard vs. Moodle – A Comparison of Satisfaction with Online Teaching and Learning Tools. They set out to answer the question: “Can free software satisfactorily meet the needs of students, faculty, and instructional technologists [...]

Derek Morrison at Auricle has posted about an interview about the migration to Moodle at Dublin City University: Today I interviewed Dublin City University’s Morag Munro who gives an honest and very informative account of the motivations and processes involved in migrating from proprietary VLE systems to the open source Moodle system. The DCU interview [...]

This resource, Practitioner Research and Evaluation Skills Training (PREST), has been developed by the Commonwealth of Learning: The PREST materials are designed for use by two target groups – ODL practitioners wanting self-study or reference materials and training providers looking for flexible research training resources to integrate into a variety of training contexts (e.g., face-to-face [...]

NESTA Futurelab – Research – Literature reviews presents 13 reviews relevant to ICT in learning. Topics include mobile technologies, science education, thinking skills and more. It’s worth a look and that’s before digging further into the site which appears to have even more useful material. Let the site blurb speak for itself: These publications offer [...]

Stephen Downes argues that it is in his response to a claim to the contrary. He cites an essay he wrote in 1998 and notes that: Even in 1998, it was clear that transactional distance mediated by a computational network would result in some characteristic features or properties of online learning. These properties are not [...]

Jay Cross has posted a link to a Breeze presentation of a conference session about A Workflow Learning Pattern Language. It’s 34 minutes worth checking out. His essential message is about the convergence of work and learning but he talks about a variety of ideas including augmented learners, the imbalance between high costs for formal [...]

Stephen Downes has given a series of presentations recently about what he is calling E-Learning 2.0. This post refers to the most recent: The latest – and last, for the next six months or so – version of this presentation surveying what I have been recently calling e-learning 2.0, delivered at ADETA’s 2005 conference in [...]

Scott Leslie at EdTechPost reports: Athabasca University to adopt Moodle and references a Moodle discussion board http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=24831 in support: Michael Penney, the Coordinator of the Courseware Development Center at California State University, Humboldt, sent me an email recently in response to my post on Moodle and ‘Enterprise Readiness.’ The note pointed me to this post [...]

The Sofia Open Content Initiative – Elementary Statistics is an online course that may be of interest to those wanting to develop their understanding of statistics and quantitative analysis. (Via CogDogBlog.)

Scott Leslie at EdTechPost comments on the exchange between James Farmer and Michael Feldstein over WebCT and open source in the context of sharing a presentation he gave to a CMS task force at UBC. The presentation is linked (as PPT) from his post and is worth a look. It covers the concept of enterprise [...]

keep looking »