Category: Open Source
Mar
09
Response to Donald Clark: Moodle: e-learning’s Frankenstein
Open Source, Moodle 2 feedbacks » 1114 viewsThis 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 »
Mar
08
#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 »
Nov
02
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 »
Oct
21
Review: Testlink - an open source test management system
Technology, Open Source Send feedback » 1984 viewsTesting 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 »
Feb
02
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 »
Dec
30
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 »
Nov
18
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 »
Jul
14
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 »
Sep
20
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 »
Jun
14
Integrating Moodle and ExponentCMS
Learning, Technology, Open Source, Moodle 1 feedback » 1708 viewsDuring 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 »
