If the institute make use of a licensed product, as we do, then students either have to purchase it, or make use of a freeware or trial version. Of course I have naturally placed the link to the facility in a Moodle block. This year in both our FE and HE programmes in Software Development, I am using C as the principle language. I feel that C as a structured introduction to programming has a lot to offer students new to the subject area. MORE

My experience has mostly been in higher ed, so I’ve always needed to do grading or more tracking than what this reader needs: I am the sole person involved with e-Learning in my branch, and I am mostly limited to using freeware. Â Things like Moodle are overkill, as we don’t need grading, blogging, wikis, etc., A reader asked a question that I’m not really sure how to answer. MORE

But if you do not have an LMS, the setup phase of your corporate university is the time to buy, build, or “freeware” a system. There are LMSs that are offered as “freeware”, such as Moodle. A corporate university must have some sort of unified delivery system for scheduling, online courses, classroom course schedules and descriptions, tracking, and instructor and facilities scheduling. MORE

In fact I did a couple of blogs on this which you can still get to from here and to save repeating myself they are:- Tell And Post, Thursday, September 14, 2006 Social Networking So Far, Sunday, September 24, 2006 Essentially the idea was to start them off by using Moodle as a social tool and see if this had any impact of the likely emergence of online groups and ultimately outcomes. MORE

Integration with existing systems: the freeware has probably been built to do one job by developers who are unfamiliar with or unconstrained by corporate systems. Installation costs: although the code for Moodle and other software may be free, installing it can be as expensive as a proprietary LMS e.g. Open University has spent over £1m installing and customising its Moodle LMS. MORE

This week I had some time to moodle around in Moodle. Moodle has some great standard reports but it doesn't appear to be too easy to customize them. I really haven't dug too deep until now so this was definitely an eye opener. I didn't realize how easy it was to set up. One thing that did trip me up though is customizing reports. MORE

I blogged recently about the development of the Nanogong and the Riffly audio-visual plugins for Moodle 2.0. Today, I'm pleased to announce that an old - that is, well-established -Moodle plugin is now freely available. As a commercially-available utility, it offered well-rounded enhancements to the fairly basic Q-T capabilities of the Moodle platform. Tags: plugin Moodle hot potatoes content development question freeware criterion test MORE

In it he points to the learning space and says that the current status of open-source learning applications is: Innovators - Elgg Learning Landscape and several others Early Adopters - Moodle and a few others Early Majority - nobody Late Majority - forget about it I would tend to agree with him that there are relatively few open-source learning applications, but would add a few thoughts. Think of it as freeware Captivate. * MORE