‘Gone Moodle’ Archives
6 Keynotes for the 2013 iMoot #imoot2013
If you haven't registered for the 2013 iMoot yet, you should. Only 9 days left to get your ticket to the virtual Moot. Announced recently were the 6 keynote presenters you can attend during the 4 day event. Martin Dougiamas: Overview of new features in Moodle 2.5. Iain Doherty: Director, eLearning Pedagogical Support at the University [...]
NextGenU brings two open courses via Moodle.net
NextGenU.org is a provider of open education and credit bearing courses online. They've published two open enrollable courses to Moodle.net recently: Environmental Health and Climate Change and Health. Registration at NextGenU is free and the courses are also open for guest viewing if you want to check them out. Both courses are college [...]
Totara Learning Solutions Expands Partner Network with Brazil-based Edubit
PRESS RELEASE The growth rate for eLearning products and services in Latin America is 14.6% and revenues will nearly double from $1.16 billion to $2.29 billion by 2016, according to a new Ambient Insight report called, “The Latin America Market for Self-paced eLearning Products and Services: 2011-2016 Forecast and Analysis.” Totara LMS [...]
Two Days Left for Early Bird Pricing and Presentation Proposals at #iMoot2013
If you're planning on the iMoot this year you have until Sunday to purchase the discounted registration price (save $15 off the full price). Early bird registration ends on 3/31 (Sunday) and there after goes up to $80 AUD. Additionally the call for papers/presentations ends simultaneously, so if you have something to say about openness in [...]
Saylor.org Increases Traffic by 500%; 280 courses assessed via Moodle
Saylor.org, a provider of free college level courses which we profiled on Moodlenews a year ago has seen a dramatic increase in web traffic this year and an overall increase in the number of courses that it offers via it's custom Wordpress CMS and Moodle LMS for assessments (quantitative examinations). The two sites work well together with [...]
Core Moodle features that make our @StraighterLine courses awesome
In December we launched our new Moodle course platform for about 75 courses on Moodlerooms' joule 2 software. Thanks to some great conversion work by Sam et al at Move2Moo (who successfully converted around 160,000 test bank items in six weeks) and a few extremely skilled staff members at StraighterLine we launched successfully and without any [...]
WizIQ lands new round of funding to allow “anyone to teach or learn, anytime and anyplace”
WizIQ, a synchronous online learning tool that integrates with Moodle (http://www.wiziq.com/moodle/) announced earlier this week that it has received a 4 million dollar investment to help integrate it's web properties and further establish itself as an educational platform for teaching and learning. The education market, especially for entities [...]
2 additional companies bring Moodle’s Official Partner list to 57
The Moodle partner list was just a handful of companies in a few key countries a couopld of years ago. The expansion of Moodle Partners has steadily increased and now lists over 55 companies worldwide. EFaktor in Norway and Elearning & Software SRL in Romania are two of the newest adds. Moodle Partner status is how companies can provide [...]
Best. Job. Ever. StraighterLine’s Moodle based course delivery platform
Let me tell you about the best job ever. I read this article back in 2009 and was immediately struck by the audaciousness of $99 a month access to college courses. While working with AP teachers and other Moodlers across the US I had quickly realized that education could be much more efficient. So I emailed the contact us form on the website [...]
Moodle 2.3 has been released
Moodle 2.3, just a few days behind schedule, has now been released and is available for download at http://download.moodle.org/. Check out all the new features such as a new course format, drag and drop upload, new file manager look and feel, redesigned assignment module and much more: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=205466
