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New eLearning Projects Approved

Moodle Journal

One late request was from myself for the acquisition by the college of a licence for Wimba Create. So a busy time ahead and of course some more frequent postings to this blog and of course to our blog for Open Sim. For those of you out there who remember courseGenie, Create is the new incarnation.

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Training starts for 2013

Moodle Journal

The idea that you are going to require staff to carryout major changes to their existing materials is always likely to induce an expected and to be frank understandable level of reticence, however by using Wimba Create , which will convert materials produced in MS Word into Scorm compliant packages, can pretty much neutralise that.

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Preparing for eLearning

Moodle Journal

The three levels ultimately translate in the first instance to training options for our staff and the first two levels really deal with learning how the use the most common Moodle options available in the standard distribution to get a course up and running, with second level showing how to make use of what I have come to refer to as web 2.0

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Blended Learning

Moodle Journal

Maybe its just coincidence, well of course it is, but this week seems to have been full of requests and postings coming my way on blended online learning. As you will I am sure know, if you have been through this one yourselves, it very soon gets complicated.

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End of term roundup

Moodle Journal

With our decision to merge the Moodle system for the two Colleges ready for September 2011 start, it seemed a good idea to at least have a small trial of course of course transfers just see if any issues emerged. Interestingly it seems that a lot of failures flagged up surrounding issues with the quiz module.

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Innovation Showcase

Moodle Journal

Producing e-Content with Wimba Create. This is part of a wider eLearning initiative with the ambition of extending learning beyond the traditional curriculum boundary, using a learning objects approach for course materials. Mahara , our fully featured open source electronic portfolio.

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End of Year Conference

Moodle Journal

As you will have read from other posts on this blog I am taking every opportunity to provide the widest expose possible for Wimba Create this academic year, so the second half is sorted. As for the first part of the session that has caused me some extra thought.