Category: "Open Source"
Dec
12
First published on the East Midlands Learning Technologists blog.
There’s a lot of debate around at the moment about MOOC’s (Massive Online Open Courses) in all their variants. In particular, there’s the question about how they can continue with no… more »
Aug
16
I'm a firm believer in the open source movement, whether it's for software and any other sort of creative endeavour. Through the generousity of many people working together towards a shared vision some great achievements have been made. Just look at… more »
Jan
13
I'm part of the generation of people that had to teach ourselves how to use computers. The classrooms had machines like the BBC Micro, and RM 380Z, with very little software (if any), and few teachers that had a clue what to do with them. Similarly our… more »
Apr
27
Configuration management systems - boring but essential
Technology, Open Source, Reviews Send feedback » 8176 viewsLike many of us, I get drawn to the new and shiny toys that seem to arrive every week. We are told that each one, whether its hardware or software, is better, faster or more useful than the one before.
But change comes at a price. It's fine if it's j… more »
Mar
09
Response to Donald Clark: Moodle: e-learning’s Frankenstein
Open Source, Moodle 2 feedbacks » 5549 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 8 feedbacks » 11465 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 »
