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Tag Archives: Open Source
Apr 2 2012
Free Cloud LMS: Opportunity, Threat or Irrelevance?
Leave a commentWith Blackboard’s announcement of the takeover of Moodlerooms and NetSpot last week the VLE/LMS market is clearly undergoing a fair amount of change after a few years of relative inactivity. I originally wrote this piece for a talk at a … Continue reading
Posted by: April 2, 2012
Tagged with: LMS, moodle, Open Source, social web, VLE
Jun 11 2009
Google Wave for e-learning
Leave a commentSomething that’s come to my attention very recently is Google Wave – Google’s reinvention of e-mail/instant messaging/collaborative editing/blogging/discussion boards etc. into one combined platform. The name still sounds a bit ominous to me, you’ll know what I mean if you’ve … Continue reading
Posted by: June 11, 2009
Tagged with: Cool, Google, Open Source, PLEs, VLE
May 2 2008
Web conferencing a-go-go
8 CommentsToday has ended up being a day for looking at web conferencing software! This morning I went with Matt to London Knowledge Lab to look at Elluminate. We already have a licence for Wimba Live Classroom and unfortunately so far … Continue reading
Posted by: May 2, 2008
Tagged with: Audio, Lecture capture, Open Source, Video, WebConference
Nov 9 2007
Investigating Drupal
Leave a commentI have been looking at Drupal as part of a slow burning project which is aiming to create a repository for language teachers to share teaching resources. The project is a collaboration between 3 universities but will initially run as … Continue reading
Posted by: November 9, 2007
Tagged with: Open Source, Repositories, VLE
Oct 30 2007
More MoodleMoot
2 CommentsAs Steve has comprehensively blogged on this already: day1, day2 I’ll just add a few comments on e-portfoilos and some more stuff coming our way from the OU. E-Portfolios These have always been on the edge of my radar but … Continue reading
Posted by: October 30, 2007
Tagged with: moodle, Open Source, PLEs, Portfolios, VLE
Sep 6 2007
Web 2.0 is evil?
6 CommentsYesterday evening at the “Towards a social science of web 2.0″ conference we witnessed an extremely interesting ‘debate’ between Charles Leadbetter and Andrew Keen; the former advancing a number of arguments that web 2.0, user generated content and open source … Continue reading
Posted by: September 6, 2007
Tagged with: Open Source, Wikis, York 2.0
Jun 4 2007
LYX
2 CommentsHave anyone across this? It is a kind of word processor, designed for scientists but produces teX files. So complex equations can be copied and pasted into moodle. It also says it is good for producing structured documents like reading … Continue reading
Posted by: June 4, 2007
Tagged with: Cool, Open Source, VLE
Mar 21 2007
Some thoughts on Virtual research environments
1 CommentI have been thinking about virtual research environments. In this context I’m not so much interested in all singing all dancing high-end research environments but rather the provision of a set of tools that will assist academics in the kind … Continue reading
Posted by: March 21, 2007
Tagged with: Open Source, Wikis
Nov 28 2006
MP Supports Open Source
Leave a commentAccording to EdTechUK an MP has tabled an early day motion supporting use of Open Source in Education because, I think, of concern that the current processes disadvantage potential use of Open Source… “John Pugh MP has tabled an Early … Continue reading
Posted by: November 28, 2006
Tagged with: Open Source
Feb 1 2006
Open source PowerLinks for WebCT
Leave a commentLooks like WebCT will support wiki and RSS integration, but only if you have the “WebCT Vista PowerLinks Kit for software development”. I’m assuming you only need this PowerLink kit if you need to customise a PowerLink (which you wouldn’t … Continue reading
Posted by: February 1, 2006
Tagged with: Open Source, VLE, WebCT