Saturday, March 23, 2019

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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Weekly Sporto bookmarks (weekly)

  • 12 Reasons To Choose Moodle As Your Learning Management System - eLearning Industry

    tags: moodle elearning

    • Moodle is the world's most popular open source Learning Management System backed by a strong community.
    •  Despite having a lot of competitors, it remains the best open source LMS around the world because of its strong community and pedagogical design
    • You are free to take your data and move your LMS to any other platform. You are nowhere bound neither with your data nor with any specific company.
    • Moodle is built on Social Constructionism pedagogy, including the tools which are truly required in an online learning environment.
    • Powering around 80k websites all over the world, Moodle is trusted by institutions and organizations large and small, including Shell, London School of Economics, State University of New York, Microsoft, and the Open University.
    • easily customizable.
    • The Moodle project’s open-source approach means that it is continually being reviewed and improved on to suit the current and evolving needs of its users. There is a new version release after every 6 months in May and November.
    • Moodle has the biggest community of developers, teachers, and designers working all around the globe for making improvements to the product named Moodle.
    • Moodle is the winner in terms of the documentation also.
    • Moodle can be customized in any way and tailored to individual needs. Its modular setup and interoperable design allows developers to create plugins and integrate external applications to achieve specific functionalities.
      • Open Source Initiative (OSI).
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      • IMS LTI™ Certified.
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      • SCORM-ADL compliant.
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      • Open Badges.

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Saturday, March 9, 2019

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  • Moodle Workplace: A new product and change in open source deployment -

    tags: open source moodle workplace

      • Moodle Workplace is a "a series of well-written plugins that sit cleanly on top of the standard core distribution" and is being released under an open source GPL license. The plugins add functionality to:

         
           
        • Create training paths;
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        • Create departmental structures and reporting;
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        • Automate enrollment, certificates and other back end processes; and
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        • Customize reporting and report delivery.
    • Workplace appears to be a solid, if somewhat unremarkable platform for organizational training delivery which can provide compliance tracking, learning pathways, and other business-focused features. For organizations looking to add training features to existing stock Moodle, Workplace should offer an easier migration path than Totara
    • By providing Workplace only as a SaaS solution, Moodle is using the same distribution loophole in the GPL.2 The upshot is that if a company or organization wants to use Moodle Workplace, they have to work through a Moodle Partner and cannot download and install the software for free.
    • No, we remain intensely committed to developing and improving Moodle core as a GPL product with the same license, open source practices and active community as now
    • Moodle Workplace as a monetization strategy seems to be a stronger bet than the previous offerings

  • 10 Education Trends to Watch: What is on the Horizon in 2019? – Etale – Embrace Mission-Minded Innovation

    tags: trends education assessment 2019

    • psychology of awe, wonder, gratitude, and mastery.
    • awareness will undoubtedly expand this year.
    • a growing focus on R&D and not simply innovation
    • R&D is more systematic, closely tied to the strategic goals and mission of an organization, and keenly focused on a desirable return on investment. Innovation has too often been framed as a value in itself. A shift to a R&D approach will help our discourse and mindset around innovation evolve into something far more mission-minded and ultimately more beneficial for everyone involved
    • becoming a newly discovered one in education communities
    • We are reaching a point where challenges and competitions are just about to show up as the next MOOC-like trend in education
    • high profile partnerships between education institutions and other organizations. In 10 years, I suspect that we will look back at 2019 as a turning point.
    • Technologies like augmented, virtual and mixed reality have reached a level of maturity that will help amplify and help us re-imagine what experiential education looks like.
    • Assessment innovation has evolved enough to give us ways to measure growth with experiential education.
    • The growth of alternative credentials along with the rapid increase in critics of the letter grade system leaves people looking for something better than what we’ve done in the past.
    • decades of authentic assessment exemplars on every level of education, but we’ve not fully grown into understanding what this means, what opportunities it creates for organizations and communities
    • As outdated assessment and grading practices begin to lose their grip on the education ecosystem at large in 2019, we can expect it to launch us into a new era of educational innovation and experimentation.

  • Carl E. Wieman on teaching, university rankings and MOOCs — Observatory of Educational Innovation

    tags: university future of education moocs

    • I look at data, and if you look at data on MOOCs, particularly look at data on learning from MOOCs, it is pretty dismal.
    • Maybe if you can't afford a textbook and you can look at something online, then the MOOC is better than nothing. But if your alternative is a real university experience, where you're actually thinking and getting feedback and interacting with people to justify arguments, then the data shows that it is so much better than MOOCs. I have trouble taking them seriously as a replacement for a good university.

  • Why Higher Ed Hypes: The MOOC Example -

    tags: MOOC moocs hype hypecycle

    • Since student success analytics has been a hyped product category, I used that bit of news as a jumping off point
    • That market category was overvalued, not mainly because of anything Civitas said or did but because higher education and ed tech investors alike have had a tendency to look for technological magic bullets.
    • One reason a company inclined to name itself "Civitas" might focus on selling itself as a platform company is because the market (and funders) can only make sense of them as a technological magic bullet. It's a systemic problem.
    • another sharp section of that post:
    • It's true that some of the stuff that happened around MOOCs was objectively dumb.
    • And the truth is that, in 2018, universities are still building, delivering, and experimenting with MOOCs.
    • But why does experimentation come with the insanity so often? Why were MOOCs accompanied by MOOC madness?
    • It turns out that reaching all of those potential students effectively is not so simple, and doing so in a way that is organizationally sustainable is even harder.
    • And we should have known that video lectures wouldn't be the answer.
    • Educators typically want to do good. That includes educational professionals who happen to work for for-profit companies, by the way. In order to do so, they often have to deal with organizational psychology, business process management, budgets, politics, market forces, and a whole host of confusing and interacting systems that human minds are not very good at modeling. So we tend to latch onto simpler, and often shinier, explanations. Technology will save us. Evil companies are killing education. Education need to be disrupted.
    • But the thing about chasing the hype is that it is exhausting and expensive.
    • A period of exhaustion. We have enough people who have been burned enough times in rapid succession, and who are trying to solve enough serious and immediate problems, that they just can't afford to be burned chasing the next shiny thing right now. They have to focus on solving the hard problems, because those are the real problems that just might move the needle for their respective institutions. That's good news for almost everyone, from the students, to the faculty, to the universities, to the ed tech companies that want to do the right thing.

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Saturday, March 2, 2019

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