One of them was Moodle, introduced on their own website as: ‘a course management system (CMS) - a free, open source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.’ I was looking for an online environment which could be used in a learning process based on face to face meetings and learning in the own workplace in between the meetings. On the previous face to face meeting we had with the e-collaboration community, facilitated by Kontakt der Kontinenten, we had several e-tools to be explored.

Our experiences with Moodle in a learning trajectory on Capacity Development In the past six months we (PSO) experimented with Moodle, an online learning- and working environment we used in an action learning trajectory on ‘The how and what of capacity development’. Mainly because we find it wasn’t very easy to integrate an online platform in the broader learning process. And it seems worthwhile to share some of our first experiences with you in this blog. How to design an environment in which new users can find their way?

By Leonie Meijerink, VSO It can be challenging for VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) volunteers to access adequate learning support once they are in their placements. To maximise our support in the field, VSO’s International Training Team has been working on a strategy called CLIC (Continuous Learning in Country). The strategy is a combination of building an online learning environment and a face Conditions in the field are constantly changing and volunteers need support that is flexible, adaptable, and timely . Moodle Distance modules and e-courses are part of a

Of Bodhi in Chicago (who has since passed on) who took this newbie under his wing and who gave me my online name of choconancy. “Eminds” was where I learned that online relationships can be real, how they get real, and  how they break and fail. You can try something and if it doesn’t work, learn, adjust and try again. This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I

However, working, teaching and learning models in WEB 2.0 must integrate this challenging learning in the conditions of ‘blind spaces’ present at teams and continuous detection of what is going on in team. Some group systems are owned and centrally controlled by one member who made an account Distributed course landscape case 3 course moodle ...Tags: I have been busy writing the descriptions of three iCamp cases and looking back of what was actually important, what we can bring at the more general level. Previously

Learning Conversational, content management  and “Learning” platforms Moodle, while pretty visually ugly, is easy to set up and is fabulously open source, as is Drupal.  Moodle - open source “learning management system” but I use it simply as a collaboration space. Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use.

Personal publishing - while easier today with blogs and wikis - has been around since the early nineties, giving voice to people in new ways that ranged wider than their geographic communities, creating learning connections that span the globe. This is true in the application of technology for learning. 8221; As people developed technologies This is the 10th and last in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick  about communities of practice in an elearning context late last year. I

There is no learning curve (or a small learning curve). or open source software like Drupal , Joomla or elgg (moodle is also used, but is actually optimized for Education) What is it? Photo: participants in our workhshop on online facilitation In many situations non-ICT specialists want to organise some online conversations and are looking for a good online space. A

8230;and I can see that these spectra might apply to the choice between blogging and an Elluminate session, or blogging and joining a Second Life group, but I find it much harder to apply these spectra to the choice between blogging and the Moodle discussion forums, which is a choice that I made myself on the CCK08 course. At one point - or maybe even more than once - Stephen was really encouraging people to blog rather than hold their discussions in Moodle, partly because there were some rather aggressive conversations going on in the Moodle forums, but I also got the feeling that he

Learning Conversational, content management and “Learning” platforms Moodle, while pretty visually ugly, is easy to set up and is fabulously open source, as is Drupal. Moodle – open source “learning management system” but I use it simply as a collaboration space. (Crossposted from Nancy’s blog ) Recently I wrote a post on my blog that received a lot of attention – more than I would have expected: How I use social media .