I have been fascinated with the Newsletter concept since, as a teenager, I used to cut stencils for our local Youth Hostel group and later University publications in Earth Science. So I found it an interesting challenge and having recently joined a local Heritage group (for whom I put a database of PDF Newsletters online) […]
The challenge was a makeover of a piece of US government web-based training: NOTE: This is not a complete course, just enough to give an idea. https://community.articulate.com/articles/give-this-ethics-training-course-a-makeover. This will give you a flavor of the original site: With this kind of thing you do need to take into account the conservative nature of government departments, […]
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 such as Moodle or indeed a number of related tools, such as Google Apps.
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 individuals and groups. The tool is seen by teachers and students alike as intuitive and […]