‘News’ Archives
@Moodlerooms Seeks Additional $1.5 in funding
As partners and use of Moodle proliferate around the world, one Moodle partner and start-up is lengthening its runway and raising additional financing (1.5 million this 3rd round) according to a Baltimore Sun article. As it grows to compete with the LMS giants (Blackboard namely) it has been snapping up colleges and university systems around [...]
#MMVC11 MoodleMoot Virtual Conference of 2011 to take place in August
Here's another virtual Moodle Moot which takes place August 17-21. This Moot will employ WizIQ's webinar tool. According to the MMVC landing page the conference will be bilingual (English and Spanish) and is now open to submit your presentations or register for participation. The topic tracks for MMVC11 are: Moodle for instruction and [...]
Take a peek at the “FolderView” course format by @Moodlerooms
I have to thank Derek Chirnside for finding this link in the Joule documentation in the comments recently. Check out a few screenshots of the new FolderView course format for Moodle 2.0 and Joule 2.0.
A new hosting Model for Moodle? Introducing the “vendor/partner”
Updated 6/2/2011 - There's a new company making some waves in the field of higher education for its innovative approach to turnkey online graduate programs. 2tor is partnering with some of the best colleges in the country in order to bring their competitive advantage to a school's program and is turning them into graduation centers for business, [...]
Sneak Peek at Moodle 2.1′s changes and features
If you're curious what the end of June will bring with the release of Moodle 2.1 you can checkout the yet to be released Moodle 2.1 Release Notes page at Moodle.org. Included in this upcoming release is a revamp of the question engine (developed by the Open University). You can read more on the release notes page but it seems to be a [...]
“Folderview” a new anti-Scroll of Death course format for Moodle 2
During my presentation at iMoot this year it was mentioned that there was a new course format coming for Moodle 2 which worked directly to prevent "Scroll of Death". Seems that the format and it's developers have both been named. According to a forum post at Moodle.org by Martin Dougiamas (in reference to the development priorities at Moodle [...]
Did you miss the May Moodle Developer Meeting? Read the recap online
If you missed the most recent Moodle Developer Meeting, not to worry. You can read the notes and minutes online to catch-up. 1 Minute recap: as many as 42 connections were made during the meeting Moodle 1.9 backups to Moodle 2.X is going well Moodle Docs reorganization ongoing Module & Plugin repository plugin development is [...]
More on Moodle Flavours #GSOC 2011
There is some new, interesting information on Moodle Flavours, one of Moodle's Google Summer of Code projects. This project was proposed and is being worked on by David Monllaó and was originally highlighted a few weeks back , quite simply it's a way for Moodle administrators to share and customize a package of settings and features on a [...]
@Moodlerooms sets the unveil date for joule 2
I just finished a move to Baltimore, MD to be closer to StraighterLine and my role as Course Director there. It's a great city and my wife and I are really enjoying the change of pace and new locale. Aside from a few furniture items not fitting through the door we've unpacked most of the way and are starting to settle back in; needless to say [...]
#Blackboard usage drops 6%; Moodle grows to 10% market share according to ITC Survey
According to the recently published 2010 Distance Education Survey Results by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC) there continues to be a shake up in the Learning Management System market with growth for some and drops for others across surveyed institutions. Note that those surveyed were generally the director of distance learning of [...]
