Posts Tagged ‘social’
Measuring Engagement: Learning Analytics in Online Learning [paper by Griff Richards]
![Measuring Engagement: Learning Analytics in Online Learning [paper by Griff Richards]](http://www.moodlenews.com/wp-content/uploads/figure3-300x206.png "Measuring Engagement: Learning Analytics in Online Learning [paper by Griff Richards]")
If you're interested in learning more about measuring student engagement in your Moodle course, this is a great paper/primer to start with. The paper was written by Griff Richards of Thompson Rivers University in Canada and highlights some key findings from recent studies of Moodle and Blackboard and how the researchers went about establishing a [...]
Two modern forum alternatives for Moodle: @Prulu and @Piazza
There is a wave of new services that help faculty and professors to curate student created questions, and in the days of the MOOC where there may be 1000s of students in a course online these are providing a solid alternative to standard Moodle discussion forums. The goal of services like these is to allow students to help each other and to [...]
Making Moodle more SOCIAL and FUN by Frankie Kam
Here's an interesting presentation by Frankie Kam posted to his blog: http://moodurian.blogspot.com/. The presentation highlights a few modifications Frankie's made to the Stamford Moodle to make it more fun and easy to use (such as autohide of editing, modifications to the online users block and badges/stamps). Check out the full [...]
Feeling moody? Show off your mood on the Online Users block for Moodle 1.9 and Moodle 2.2!
WHAT IF you could display your mood or status on the Online Users block by Andy J. Davis? Imagine with me if you will. You're on your Moodle course page. Just before you go to make phone call, you display a BRB (Be Right Back) status next to your username on the block. Or before you attempt a quiz for the next one hour, you display a Busy [...]
Opinion: The Social Learning Environment and Moodle
With the introduction of several new learning platforms in 2011 (Instructure, Sophia, CourseKit, OpenClass and others) there's a new buzz word in the realm of LMSs: "Social". Which is ironic since Moodle was built to introduce the "use of Open Source software to support a social constructionist epistemology of teaching and learning" . [...]
iMoot Speaker Spotlight: Chad Outten #iMoot
At the upcoming iMoot (http://imoot.org) Chad Outten is going to show how to make Moodle more social. Managing and helping to design Moodle sites as director of mylearningspace (@mylearningspace), Chad has the experiences and expertise to back up his session presentation. His session will, demonstrate the benefits of Moodle's social [...]
Quick video interview of @Moodlerooms about the Joule2.0 release and their new social wrapper for Moodle
Anyone seen the social wrapper for Joule/Moodle by Moodlerooms? Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYLK34ug0D8 What is Joule? http://www.moodlerooms.com/lms-solutions/joule/
Moodle Bar
Lewis Carr, Moodle developer has contributed a great many projects to Moodle.org (including fixing many bugs and a developing a new My Moodle page). Lewis's blog is full of useful developer notes and downloads that could be implemented to Moodle sites and his list of development projects for 2010 includes an iPhone theme and the Moodle [...]
