‘Interview’ Archives
A few post-Canada Moot thoughts from @Moodler (video)
Martin Dougiamas provided his thoughts in this short video as a debrief with Lambda Solutions for this year's Canada Moot. It's all about why Moots are important, what he has seen from the local users and what makes him most excited about Moodle users. Worth a quick watch. Direct video link: http://youtu.be/2qtp9HZ4u_o Also worth a [...]
Interview with the Folks behind #iMoot2013
As you know the 2013 iMoot is coming up next week, I was able to do a email interview of Vinny Stocker and Julian Ridden (@Moodleman), two of the folks behind the scenes of the event put on by Pukunui and supported by a few other organizations (Blindside Networks, and Packt Publishing). Registration is available [...]
Learn about IMS Global’s Learning Tools Interoperability Alliance
I had the chance to trade emails with Lisa Mattson, COO of IMS Global and she shared some great information that should give any activity or 3rd party developer get started on the pathway to LTI certification through IMS Global's certification process. As you may know, LTI is a great tool-set for allowing students and users from a LMS connect [...]
Using Moodle in Trade School programs @TAFE_SWSI
Here's a quick video from Australia highlighting the use of Moodle in the Shopfitting program at Lidcombe College in South Western Sydney Institute. It features teachers and students both talking about the changes brought on with the adoption of Moodle. Good stuff. Direct video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvpIAmf47NU.
A Question and Answer session with the @Moodleman about iMoot2012
Julian Ridden, the Moodleman himself, kindly agreed to an email interview with me regarding the upcoming 3rd annual iMoot event (http://2012.imoot.org/). This week I'll be sharing his answers (as seen below) in advance of the May iMoot. Moodlenews: Where'd the inspiration for iMoot come from? Julian: iMoot's inspiration came 4 years ago. I [...]
Monday November 14th: Inside a Moodle Mind with Laurie Korte
The Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU) in Pennsylvania runs a great series of events all focused on Moodle, next Monday is "Inside a Moodle Mind" with a friend of Moodlenews, Laurie Korte. The event is from 3-4pm EST on Monday November 14th and is hosted by CCIU Moodle Administrator Laura Mikowychok (@lmikowychok). This is part of a [...]
“Moodle Top 10″ Webinar coming up on Nov 2nd at 2pm EST
Join Campus Technology and Moodlerooms for a look at the why's and how's of using an open source enterprise learning management system in higher education. Two current Moodle/campus Directors of IT will be on hand to talk about their experiences. According to the landing page, Moodle has become a mainstream alternative to the legacy LMS of [...]
Moodle Named “Project of the Month” at @sourceforge
SourceForge.net, the largest network for open source project hosting and community site has named Moodle its project of the month for July 2011. The honor is bestowed to one of the 1,000s of projects hosted at SourceForge 12 times a year. Read more at http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-201107/. On the project of the month page for Moodle you [...]
Gone Moodle: An interview with Clarence Maise of Western Nevada College
Recently Clarence Maise and Western Nevada College took a well-informed leap of faith in adopting their new LMS, Joule 2 provided by Moodlerooms. While many other higher education institutions have hesitated to adopt the underlying Moodle 2.0 technology, Clarence and his team were eager to adopt the best possible after piloting several versions [...]
Interview with David Monllaó, Developer of Moodle Flavours #GSOC
The Moodle Flavours project is one that I'm currently watching with much anticipation. As a Google Summer of Code Project this is development work that Moodle is receiving in exchange for providing mentorship to a student (the student is paid through a Google stipend, learn more about the GSOC here). Michael de Raadt is acting as mentor for [...]
