‘News’ Archives
Feasibility Study Update (1 week left to participate)
Just a quick update on the Moodle Feasibility Study we're conducting here at Moodlenews. If you haven't already filled out the survey please do so and help us out! http://www.moodlenews.com/feasibility-study/ Already a dozen sites have participated from around the world: in the US, UK, Isreal, and New Zealand. And nearly 60,000 students [...]
mPage’s InApp upgrades are now available for purchase on #iPod and #iPhone
mPage version 1.1, one of the leading Moodle Mobile applications was recently released by developer, Mass Media of Hong Kong. Version 1.1 supports InApp purchasing of upgrades and functionality for the Mobile app. InApp capabilities include a functional forum module (which in the free version is read only). For more information about the [...]
Moodle & #Blackboard LMS Feasibility Study Now Available from OSC
The Open Source Collaborative project of North Carolina Community College System has released it's most recent LMS Feasibility Study (Part 2): http://goo.gl/XNbU. The full report is over 120 pages, (give us a little time to go over that) but the summary is a lean 7 pages. Report concluded that Moodle was a viable alternative to Blackboard in [...]
New #iPad MoodleTouch Video released
Just in from Ali (@aliozgur) and his team at Moodletouch.com: mTouch in Action @ Yahoo! Video For more information and videos check out Moodletouch.com: http://goo.gl/qjJw
Happy Birthday Moodle (and @Moodler) via @Moodlehelen
It's 8 years old today, August 19th. A long and fruitful road. Here's to many more years! Check out Helen Foster's post for some more details on the history of Moodle, http://helenfoster.wordpress.com/ Send in your wishes at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=156255
Opinion – Can Moodle replace social networks in educational settings?
There are a few interesting articles recently, one from Tampa Bay's local news channel 10 and the other from the Mundelein Review in Illinois: the local school districts are banning or discouraging communication between students and teachers via social networks and instead are leaning on Moodle and school website portals to provide all modes of [...]
14 New Courses from @moodleshare!
Jon Fila, the coordinator and creator of Moodleshare.com (on Twitter at @moodleshare) is also hosting courses that are shared and available for download at http://courses.moodleshare.com. He's recently posted a few new courses, including Web tools for online courses Alcohol Unit for health courses Heat and Populations units for [...]
Moodle Feasibility Study Survey
At the Moot in Austin we covered a great presentation about the feasibility study conducted by North Carolina Community College's Open Source Collaborative and now we've found a collaborative opportunity to tackle the question of feasibility of Moodle in schools and organizations. It's a short survey, but from it we hope that Moodle [...]
“Failure of Constructivism” Keynote by Dr. Richard Clark Slides now available
One of the most popular posts here lately has been a recap of the MootusTX10 keynote by Dr. Richard Clark down in Austin (August 2nd) . It was a very, very good keynote (interesting throughout with great anecdotes and quick wit). The slides are now available (thanks to Moodlerooms, @moodlerooms). Truth be told, the correct title of the [...]
The developers of MoodleTouch talk about their new #iPad app
Ali Ozgur was nice enough to lend us a few minutes and answer some questions about their new iPad app (due out in September): Why the push into Mobile learning? We consider mobile learning a very serious field which requires expertise in both application and user experience levels. Moodle is a fantastic LMS and we feel obliged to [...]
