Category: Open Source

Response to Donald Clark: Moodle: e-learning’s Frankenstein

Open Source, Moodle 2 feedbacks »  1114 views
This is a response to Donald's post about Moodle and how it may develop in the futureHi Donald,An inciteful post as usual. The problems with Moodle's Partner structure has been evident for a while. Bigger companies have chosen to go it alone, sim… more »

Introduction to Moodle for corporate L&D

Open Source, Moodle 2 feedbacks »  954 views
#LSGroup #yamYesterday's Learning & Skills Group webinar on How Companies are Making the Most of Moodle attracted over 200 people and stimulated a huge amount of conversation in the chat room.Steve Rayson (from Kineo) gave a superb overview o… more »

Moodle and Elgg: a comparison

Open Source, Moodle, Social Networks, Elgg 2 feedbacks »  3165 views
I've just spent a good day in a workshop with Jane Hart (of elearning Pick of the Day fame), as the first stage in a programme looking at the whole breadth of social learning systems and approaches. Jane is a very effective advocate of Elgg, the open… more »

Review: Testlink - an open source test management system

Technology, Open Source Send feedback »  1984 views
Testing is one of those tasks, like writing documentation, that most of us tend to avoid until abolutely necessary. A good test process, however, should help to ensure that you deliver exactly what the client ordered, and allow you to prioritise fixing p… more »

b2evolution bulk user import script

Not yet categorised, Open Source 12 feedbacks »  4682 views
b2evolution is a superb multi-user, multi-blogging tool - far easier to setup than WordpressMU for multi-blog sites. At the moment, though, users have to be added manually - either through self-registration or through the admin backend. I was looki… more »

To open source or not?

Open Source, Presentations & Workshops 2 feedbacks »  3341 views
This is a high-level summary of a talk I'm giving at Learning Technologies 2009 at the end of this month. If you're coming along then use it to help you prepare some questions... Open source learning software means more than just Moodle. As well as th… more »

The free tool selection grid

Technology, Open Source Send feedback »  2129 views
Jane Hart has made a fantastic contribution to the learning professional's community with her ongoing top 100 tools list. During this week's Learning Trends conference she takes that list and pulls out the "25 Free Tools Every Learning Professional Shoul… more »

You don't need Photoshop

Open Source, Graphics Send feedback »  1337 views
I use a lot of templates from places like Open Source Web Design. Often these templates come with the source files for the graphics/images. Often these have the extension .psd ie. they're Photoshop files. If I needed to edit the graphics, I had two op… more »

IBM Lotus Symphony - free!

Technology, Open Source Send feedback »  985 views
Via Jane Knight. What's the future for Microsoft Office for everyone except large corporates? Now that IBM has released Lotus Symphony - a full "office" suite of tools (Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets) - there's no real need for anyone to buy MS O… more »

Integrating Moodle and ExponentCMS

Learning, Technology, Open Source, Moodle 1 feedback »  1708 views
During the past couple of weeks I've been working on building a major intranet site. It's based on two systems (ExponentCMS and Moodle), which naturally brings the challenge of providing a seamless experience for users. As with all integrations there… more »
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