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October 31, 2006
UIUC's College of Education's Moodle Service listed as Open Source success story
The October 31st, 2006 posting in the CRMchump blog lists its "50 Open Source success stories in Business, Education, and Government."
UIUC's College of Education's Moodle Service was listed as Success Story #7. The service has been established "to supplement the course management solutions available to College of Education faculty and students. It also serves as a resource for workshop leaders and attendees and members of collaborative workgroups and online communities."
Posted by mlindema at 09:22 AM
The Open University launches OpenLearn
The Open University launches OpenLearn , 25 October 2006
"The Open University’s commitment to broadening access to education is being taken to another level with the launch of OpenLearn, its major new open content initiative. The OpenLearn website will make educational resources freely available on the internet, with state of the art learning support and collaboration tools to connect learners and educators.
This £5.65 million project, supported by a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will cover a full range of subjects from arts and history to science and nature, at all study levels from access to postgraduate. Available to learners and educators throughout the UK and worldwide, the project will be of particular significance in The Open University’s efforts to open access to hard-to-reach groups and tackle educational disadvantage both within the developed and developing worlds.
OpenLearn will be formally launched in London on 25th October 2006 at 1 Great George Street, Westminster. Keynote speakers include Bill Rammell, MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education and Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University."
Posted by mlindema at 09:18 AM
October 28, 2006
Blackboard's Portfolio for Vista & CE
I just read an interesting blog posting by Raj Boora about Blackboard's eportfolio product. He addresses the importance of faculty buy-in to ensure successful adoption. Boora has created a demo of the portfolio, which will be available until November 11, 2006.
Also See Edutools review of Blackboard's ePortfolio.
Posted by mlindema at 01:33 PM
Creating podcasts from Elluminate Live! Recordings
A step-by-step guide on how to create podcasts from Elluminate Live! recodrings has been posted in the Elluminate Users Group community in Learning Times Network.
Posted by mlindema at 12:56 PM
Sloodle - 3D Learning Management System
SLoodle = Second Lfie Object-Oriented distrbuted Learning Environment.
"Touch, walk through and fly around learning exercises mirrored on the Internet and the Metaverse. Blocks in Moodle become 3D objects in Second Life. Chat logs, objects and Second Life snapshots become contributions to the Moodle classroom. Two developer communities come together to create entirely new teaching tools that motivate while offering hands-on exploration."
http://www.sloodle.com/
Posted by mlindema at 12:46 PM