Moodle Journal

JANUARY 21, 2013

Whether e-Learning is part of a blended or whole distance learning solution, it is all to often the case I find that resistance emerges to its implementation from a range of perceptions, that I can only describe as myths, some more common than others for instance:- Students will not enjoy the interaction that a class environment provides e-Learning (..)

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Moodle Journal

MAY 8, 2012

The whole idea of flipping has become a popularised term for a practice not entirely new, but through which we can certainly leverage technology to effectively push learning away from the more traditional taught environment and into a more distributed style.

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Moodle Journal

APRIL 29, 2008

I received an email recently describing a new content repository from the Worcester College of technology, its called MrCute and is intended to be an optional add-on to the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. More specifically, it extends the functionality of the IMS Repository system originally developed by Alton College, UK.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 25, 2011

It's a new kind of learning environment that goes beyond the LMS. Have you come acrosss OpenClass yet? It’s open to everyone, easy to use, and completely free — and it's making an amazing impact on education.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

The advantage being that everyone gets to use the same product, all you need is an Internet connection to get compiling and the interface is about as simple as it gets, this last point does have advantages when you look at some of the complex semi professional inetegrated development environments that often ship with the newer visual compilers.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Now not withstanding the problems that you may or may not experience with wireless technologies, one of the issues that soon make itself apparent is the activity of note taking in an electronic environment.

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Moodle Journal

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

That we should compliment the existing College ILT Strategy, but taking the attributes of best practice in ILT application within an academic environment as our terms of reference. In order to inform on a fully inclusive basis, I recommend that three fundamental requirements be put into place.

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Moodle Journal

MARCH 21, 2006

There is a copy of the working environment here , where you can see the project was built around Learning Objects, Forums, Chats and Wiki’s in support of a problem based collaborative learning exercise.

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Moodle Journal

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

I came across the “Study of Environments to Support e-learning in UK Further and Higher Education” report produced by Education for Change Ltd produced by The Research Partnership for JISC recently.

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Moodle Journal

OCTOBER 21, 2011

In the near future, when students enrol at our college, they will be enrolling into a very real vibrant working social environment, while at the same time enrolling into a very real, social virtual environment. Please stay in touch for future posts and feel free to comment. Barry Spencer e-Learning Project Coordinator

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Moodle Journal

AUGUST 31, 2011

My ambition here ultimately is to deploy our Moodle system more as a Virtual Learning Environment and not just a Course Management System, so you may like to stay in touch to see how we get on.

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Moodle Journal

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

During the conversation, especially as the subject of games and games d evelopment was very on the table, I mention ed that we had introduced Greenfoot, this is a great little and drag and drop development type of environment for teaching games written in Java, ideal for our level 3 student, so if you have yet to see the application then I recommend (..)

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Moodle Journal

JANUARY 6, 2012

Within a working eLearning environment these components will inevitably begin to take place at times and locations beyond the more traditional physical and time constraints imposed on both staff and students by timetables.

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