When SCORM can be problematic.
Do you really need SCORM objects in your Moodle courses?
Richard Jones
Quick overview of richard's professional background and experience.
Do you have an LMS problem?
A Big Day Out takes teachers out of the classroom to share idea in a pleasant environment.
Course Design and Usability
Some thoughts as presented at the Sydney Schools Moodle Moot. These are based on the course that Nina Pollock and I designed in one day at the New Zealand Moodle Moot.
Moodle Course Design
In her book Learner-Centred Teaching [1], Maryellen Weimer discusses five key changes to teacher practice that can lead to improved outcomes for learners. We consider each of these in turn and their possible relationship to the implementation of an LMS…
Essential Principles of Blended Learning
This article encapsulated out philosophy at The Southport School very nicely: http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/08/four-essential-principles-of-blended-learning/ How does it relate to corporate training, if at all?
Moodle’s “hidden feature”
In my last engagement, I regularly spoke of Course Reports as one of Moodle’s "hidden" features because teachers did not seem to grasp their significance readily. Perhaps because, in a normal classroom situation you develop a “feel” for the way…
Book Review: Moodle Multimedia Cookbook.
This is the second edition of the book by Silvina P. Hillar and published by Packt (http://www.packtpub.com). The book surveys a wide range of techniques for using images, audio and video in Moodle courses. It also covers the use of…
Using Mahara for Social learning
Mahara is an ePortfolio in which the default for all stored information is private. It makes a great “walled garden” for introducing students to the concepts of social and mobile networking as well as being a great learning tool for…
The Internet in 2034
A little piece I wrote recently for the Coursera Course by Dr Chuck (Charles Severance) on Internet History, Technology and Security. An excellent course by the way, you may know much about the technology already but the interviews are quite…