December 05, 2006
Pedagogy & Moodle by Martin Dougiamas
Martin Dougiamas has posted an interesting paper on Pedagogy & Moodle in Moodle Docs at http://docs.moodle.org/en/Pedagogy
In addition to discussing how Moodle supports a Social Constructionist approach to education, Martin describes some new features that will be implemented in Moodle 2.0. Personally, I am most excited about the implementation of a Repository that will make the development of e-Portfolios in Moodle much easier.
-- Michael Lindeman
Posted by mlindema at 08:58 AM
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
October 28, 2006
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
June 21, 2006
Moodle 1.6 is now available for download!
On Tuesday, June 20 2006 Martin Dougiamas announced that Moodle 1.6 is now available for download!
ION will be upgrading its ION Moodle server (used to host non-MVCR moodle courses) this week. The MVCR Moodle server will be upgraded following the conclusion of summer courses.
Some of the major highlights include:
* 100% Unicode support - all 70 existing languages are now compatible and can be mixed wherever you like.
* New documentation wiki - a one-stop shop for all documentation, integrated from within each page of Moodle itself.
* Database module - a new activity module for collaborative collection and display of arbitrary data
* Blogs - finally Moodle has blogs for ongoing personal reflections, viewable by course, by group, by individual etc
* New reports - plug-in reports enable you to create and share new report types. New statistics reports are included in Moodle 1.6.
* Questions - quiz question types are now a centralised structure so any module will be able to use them in future.
* LAMS - a new activity module and course format allow LAMS to be easily integrated with Moodle if you need to
* My Moodle - a new customizable dashboard page with an overview of all your own courses and what is new
* Hive integration - Moodle can be closely integrated with Hive, a leading object repository, with single-sign-on etc.
* Multiple groups - users can be part of any number of groups in a course
* IMS content packages - can now be loaded as resources
* New Chameleon theme - can be customised in your browser on the fly!
* Granularised backup - allows you to backup only selected activities
* Multi Enrolments - use any number of Moodle's enrolment methods at once, including the new IMS Enterprise methods
For full information see the Moodle 1.6 release notes
Posted by mlindema at 08:56 AM
June 01, 2006
Setting up a Moodle education server
This introductory article provides step-by-step instructions for installing Moodle, a Learning Management System, on a Fedora Linux server. The article provides everything necessary to setup a full-powered intranet web-server that can support course listings, event calendars, student/teacher communication, and more. Best of all, a prototype server can be functional within about 45 minutes.
Posted by mlindema at 07:42 AM