Whilst this is an orientation week, no time has been wasted in getting down to the nitty gritty, with George Roberts asking the question in the Week 0 Moodle Forum – ‘What is learning?’ remember that last year I referred to Stephen Downes’ statement that ‘to learn is to practice and reflect and to teach is to model and demonstrate’. MORE >>

or: An APPetite for learning - guest post by Neil Ballantyne]. By far the most engaging I have come across are the iPhone apps developed by Red River Press: Conversation English , English at Work and Learning English with the New York Times ($5.99 Moodle on iPhone. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! Games. MORE >>

Although the development of the First Steps into Learning and Teaching in Higher Education MOOC is still a work in progress, the course is now open for Registration – [link]. Some aspects of the course are only accessible through registration, e.g. the Moodle discussion forums. Why Register? There are a few reasons. Assessment. MORE >>

We had 151 people register for FSLT12 and 168 register for the Moodle site. Canada, USA, South America, Africa, Europe, India, the Far East and Australia were all represented and at the time of writing 60 people have accessed the Moodle site within the last 3 weeks. On reflection #fslt12 was a SmOOC – a small open online course. MORE >>

The discussions in the FSLT Moodle site  are  beginning to get going and quite a few people are already blogging or setting up their blogs. have also been influenced by the work of Stephen Downes who says that to learn is to practice and reflect  and that learning is about recognising patterns. Barnett writes on p.62 MORE >>