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Teaching with Moodle 2: Training, collaboration and reflection online (Course for Download)

Teaching with Moodle 2: Training, collaboration and reflection online (Course for Download)

Here's a free course from Moodle.net which you can use to help kick start your professional development.  The course is all about training teachers with Moodle 2 and was shared by Rebecca Barrington at South Devon College. According to Moodle.net: An online course providing support and training for new features within Moodle 2 and how they [...]

MOOCH gets a new URL: Moodle.net

MOOCH gets a new URL: Moodle.net

Hub.Moodle.org has been the official Moodle hub for published and shared courses.  It now has a new URL: Moodle.net.  This is still the same great resource but now with a simpler/shorter URL to type in.  Any previously shared courses and viewable courses are still accessible and future connections to the site formerly known as the MOOCH will go [...]

it’s Pi Day! Celebrate with some Moodle Math Courses #piday

it’s Pi Day! Celebrate with some Moodle Math Courses #piday

Looking for math courses that you might use? There are a few sources you might look at to get your Pi Day fix (#piday | wikipedia π day). Moodleshare.org: 18 courses Hub.moodle.org: 5 courses Saylor.org: 25+ courses made of OER content, assessments are available through their Moodle site FreeMoodle.org: 7 [...]

New on the MOOCH: War and Peace in Eastern Europe

New on the MOOCH: War and Peace in Eastern Europe

This course was shared via the Open College and is available to registered users (you can login with Facebook or Google really easily).  The course includes: Video lectures by Sir Richard Evans of the University of Cambridge (6) Readings (100s of pages) Quizzes The course is comprised completely of OER and is available to students for [...]

Back to School: Get some course content

Back to School: Get some course content

A blank Moodle course can be a daunting thing to behold for beginners.  If you learn better by taking things apart and seeing how they work, then starting from an existing course in Moodle is definitely the way to go.  Luckily there are loads of great resources available where you can find sample courses and even courses which can be restored to [...]

Back to School: Tips for getting started

Back to School: Tips for getting started

My guess is that the majority of Moodlers this term are falling into two camps: previous users setting up existing courses for the term who have some great experience and anecdotal evidence of what works, what doesn't and perhaps a laundry list of new stuff to try this year, the other camp is users new to Moodle and just starting out who have had [...]

8 Free courses for Moodle 1.9 from MoodleNZ.Net

8 Free courses for Moodle 1.9 from MoodleNZ.Net

Here are 8 course backups ready to deploy on your Moodle 1.9 installation for inspiration.  The course range from book projects for year 7s to a Moodle Admin Workshop lesson plans.  Check them all out at http://moodlenz.net/zips/ Below is the outline for the Windows Movie Maker Project.  Note that no activities or resources are included [...]

Check out the program for the Ireland Moot #mootieuk2012

Check out the program for the Ireland Moot #mootieuk2012

Looking through the program for the Ireland Moot this coming April I'm struck by how many great (over 60?!) session titles caught my eye.  IMS LTI in Moodle? yes please.  Packaging OER for distribution in Moodle? Don't mind if I do. Blackboard 9 to Moodle 2.1 in 4 months? Sounds perfect. Learn more about these sessions and more [...]

241 OER Courses with Assessments in Moodle: How Saylor.org has created one of the largest Free and Open Course Initiatives on the web

241 OER Courses with Assessments in Moodle: How Saylor.org has created one of the largest Free and Open Course Initiatives on the web

Among free education advocates Saylor.org is leader offering absolutely free educational resources online.  The Saylor goal/vision is to create "a zero-cost alternative to those who lack the resources to attend traditional brick-and-mortar institutions" and to provide those mainstream learning providers a free complement of resources online. [...]

On the 10th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…

On the 10th day of #Moodlemas the community shared with me…

Courses for sharing! 9 Tutorials for watching 8 Site for Storytell-ing 7 mobile Moodl-ing 6 Course-for-matting 5 a course about Jiiing 4 pretty themes 3 plugins 2 Cheery images and A freebie Christmas themed Glossary! If it's one thing Moodle has done well is creating a community driven repository of courses that [...]

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