The other day I was asked by a client to send a bullet point list of the main features of the online learning platform that we are developing for them. Condensing a lot of thinking around the development of a very complex platform for them proved to be pretty challenging but the list ended up …
Developing Creativity to Make Sense of Digital Literacy
I’m getting seriously excited. For months I’ve been wondering exactly how digital literacy skills could be developed in ways that were relevant to the extra ordinary demands to reshape the way we use media and information while, simultaneously, ensuring that basic literacy skills such as reading and writing are given their proper place as the …
Engaged Brains and the Internet
I seem to be veering toward a Luddite’s perception of the Internet over the past few posts given their focus on some new and perhaps negative insights into either Facebook usage or Google searching. It’s a positive ‘veer’ though – I think it is clear that the glut of information that we now have washing …
Is the Web Dumbing Us All Down?
Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, has a lot to say… and loudly … about the insidious effect on our ability to analyse and engage critically with information when we rely on the ‘McDonald’s, fries and Coke’ of the Internet, Google (Brabazon’s other descriptives for Google are the ‘whitebread’ and the …
Digital Literacy: Learning to Run Twice as Fast
(Digital re-print of article: copyright Tony Hughes & AFG Venture Group. First published by AFG Venture Group in the AFG Venture Group Dispatches. June 2010 – all rights reserved) “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else if you ran very fast for a long time, as …
E-learning in France: Anything new?
I’m back in France for a couple of months after eight months in Australia. Having spent most of my working life in Europe, particularly in France, working on various digital media projects I am very interested to see how the French are thinking about e-learning in 2010. France was slow to pick up on the …
What is Moodle?: Part 2
The following presentation gives an overview of what Moodle is and how it works. For more information on integrating Moodle into your organisation’s elearning strategy please contact us.
What is Moodle?
Martin Dougiamas, Moodle Pty Ltd, Australia delivers the keynote address at Online Educa in Berlin. Martin, the Australian founder of Moodle, gives a run-through of what Moodle is, how it grew and how he sees it developing in the future. Seeking Quality in Pedagogy Via Community-Driven Open-Source Development Contact praxMatrix to find out more about …
Moodle Makes it’s Mark
During a recent chat with the Australian National University’s Professor Liz Deane the conversation turned to the university’s recent adoption of Moodle, an open source learning management system (LMS) that has, over the past few years, begun to sweep the floor clean of the expensive proprietary LMS systems traditionally used in higher education. According to …
