‘Opinion’ Archives
Is blended learning the new normal?
Welcome to Moodlenews's newest contributor, Megan Pope. Pushing the role of technology in education seems to be a trend, and several schools in Michigan have been implementing Moodle as the LMS platform for a new blended learning model. According to a recent article by The Times Herald, Algonac Superintendent, Mike Sharrow, suggested "We’re [...]
Future of eLearning Infographic highlights trends and stats by @Amvonet
Amvonet, a synchronous web tool for hosting and publishing recorded webinars, has a new infographic about the current and future state of online learning for the education market. The latter bits of the graphic are tailored to highlight Amvonet & Moodle's capabilities together but there are some interesting stats about use projections in the [...]
My 5 Favorite Moodle 2.5 Improvements
Moodle 2.5 is coming this summer and after seeing some of the features demoed during the General Developer's Meeting yesterday I can say that I am very excited. Here are my top five improvements to Moodle 2.5: 1. Wordpress like install and update for plugins: Administrating your Moodle and managing plugins and addons just became wayyyy [...]
#Moodlewish: A better course catalog feature
There are a lot of great looking course catalogs out there right now: Udemy, Coursera, Blackboard's Coursesites are just a few examples. These sites make browsing through courses engaging and easy. My #Moodlewish for today is that Moodle would have a better course catalog feature than what is standard in the core today. This course layout page [...]
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 [...]
Paid Plugin Site gains steam/interest
One of the great things about Moodle is that it has a solid community to developers who share all of their products for free. It's also one of the things that might be holding back the best development ideas and products. There will always be a place for free apps and plugins in the Moodle community, some believe though that there's a place for [...]
#Moodlewish: Video Everywhere (@Blackboard’s cool new feature)
It's not that often that I am envious of the Blackboard Learn, but like their Ocho release which upgraded the themes from 2000 to 2020 they've recently launched a new tool on Coursesites that is simply awesome. The new tool is called "Video Everywhere" and it basically leverages Youtube's API to allow professors and students to integrate video [...]
Moodle for Social Justice (a synopsis of the Moodlenews feasibility survey)
This is a research paper by Mario Martinez of Texas Tech University that focuses on the results of the Moodle feasibility study conducted in 2010 by Moodlenews through Google Forms. I made the data available and did my own basic distillation shortly after the survey was closed. Mario has gone on further to discuss social justice organizations [...]
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 [...]
#Moodlewish Wrap Up: Let us know what you think
So we collected a quality list of Moodlewishes by participants over the last two weeks as part of our iMoot ticket giveaway (you can still register btw). Here's a quick run down of some of the best submissions: Full editing and management functionality on mobile devices Quick reference to see how large courses are (at a glance) Had drag [...]
