E-Learning & Online Teaching

I’ve been working for several years with Moodleroom hosted Moodle course installations. I’ve noodled around with Moodle since 2002, but stayed away at first because I didn’t want to climb the learning curve of running my own server. Then I found Tom Murdock & Gina Stevens at Thinking Distance. They were educators who were committed to providing online elearning experiences with a great open source platform. With hosting off my plate I had more time to dedicate to creating and teaching classes, just the way I like it. The years have flown by and I’ve developed a number of classes and CMS systems (21cif.mrooms.net, reading1st.mrooms.org, wiredinstructor.us ) Theses experiences have given me insight and respect for Moodle. I’m so glad I got on this train

Recently the number of calls from interested educators, consulting work in education and elsewhere, and just general interest has been off the charts. Many are realizing the wisdom of NOT paying exorbitant seat costs to the big commercial outfits when an open source system can do the job…. better!

• Dougiamas.com: EDMEDIA 2003 This paper summarizes a PhD research project that has contributed towards the development of Moodle – a popular open-source course management system (moodle.org).(tags: moodle)
• Moodle Bibliography – Brandeis University The LATTE Project team offers these selected Moodle resources for the Brandeis community. Professionally assembled bibliography of Moodle Content.(tags: moodle)
• The Moodle Playpen Welcome to the Playpen. This site demonstrates the use of Moodle when augmented by community code. A fantastic looking site that demonstrates what moodle themes can do… Wow(tags: moodle)
• Moodle: Moodle Buzz Moodle news and publications from around the world. Entries require approval before they are viewable by everyone. Moodle.org collects news pieces about Moodle and posts them here.(tags: moodle)
• knowMOODLE KnowMOODLE is Open Knowledge Technologies authorized Moodle Training Partner in Canada.(tags: moodle)
• The MoodleMan Blog Promising new blog focused on Moodle. Looks great, uses one of the new templates. Worth keeping an eye on.(tags: moodle)
• Moodlebug UK based blog with many detailed posts. While the information is localized, the UK is a hot bed of moodle action, so there’s a lot to be learned.(tags: moodle)
• Moodle JournalMoodle Journal using the Moodle VLE to promote e-Learning through forum, lesson, quiz and chat we chronicle using podcasts, streaming, downloads, training, metadata, scorm, lessons, quizzes, forums, chat, journals and assignments by lecturers in the deployment of the Moodle vle UK based(tags: moodle)
• Mahara portfolios now out of Beta | The MoodleMan Blog Mahara is an open source ePortfolio system being designed from the ground up to work with Moodle.(tags: moodle e-portfolio)
• Moodle Tutorials ::: Educating Educators Focus on 1.9 High Resolution Tutorials Complete Dedication to Moodle Faster Video Uploads Ability to Get .swf Directly Published Rleatively new site with great promise. YouTube for Moodle? I joined and am always grateful for good Moodle training video(tags: moodle video)