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Tag Archives: VLE
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
Apr 1 2011
Why LSE is sticking with Moodle 1.9
Leave a commentA little while ago LSE decided that it would stick with Moodle 1.9 and not move to Moodle 2.0 for the academic year 2011-12. The LSE Centre for Learning Technology (CLT) started looking at Moodle 2.0 pretty much as soon … Continue reading
Posted by: April 1, 2011
Tagged with: moodle, VLE
Nov 26 2010
Publishing Echo recorded lectures in Moodle
Leave a commentEchoSystem, the lecture recording service we are running at LSE, provides various methods for publishing links to recorded lectures in Moodle, our VLE (LMS). The “Moodle Publisher” places the links in the course calendar, with each recording listed as a … Continue reading
Posted by: November 26, 2010
Tagged with: echo360, echosystem, Lecture capture, moodle, PHP, VLE
Jul 20 2010
Text Message (SMS) Pilots
Leave a commentVolunteers needed! The CLT is looking for LSE teaching staff to pilot the use of text messages (SMS) in teaching. If you would like to participate in the pilots let us know by email to clt-support@lse.ac.uk Some ideas of how … Continue reading
Posted by: July 20, 2010
Tagged with: Learning Design, Mobile, moodle, VLE
Apr 26 2010
Moodle Moot 2010
1 CommentOn 13-14 April I attended Moodle Moot 2010, hosted by ULCC at the University of London’s Senate House. I didn’t find it as enlightening as last year’s Moot at Loughborough, but it had its moments, and I believe my colleagues … Continue reading
Posted by: April 26, 2010
Tagged with: moodle, mootuk11, VLE
Mar 30 2010
EduCampLondon: an ‘unconference’
Leave a commentA few weeks ago now I attended my first unconference. For the uninitiated an unconference is a conference that is organised & delivered by the delegates. For example, take the programme, it was complied in this Google Spreadsheet with the delegates simply adding a title to a slot. No submitting of abstracts 6 months before [...]
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Posted by: March 30, 2010
Tagged with: Audio, ecl10, VLE
Feb 18 2010
Txting Moodle
1 CommentWe have recently added a text messaging service to Moodle called moodletxt (powered by txttools) . The primary use for this service is to receive text messages (SMS) in Moodle. Using Moodletxt in Teaching & Learning In some respects moodletxt … Continue reading
Posted by: February 18, 2010
Tagged with: Mobile, moodle, VLE
Dec 18 2009
Our survey says….
Leave a comment….95.7% of LSE students are very satisfied (45.3%) or fairly satisfied (50.4%) with Moodle. The results from our survey carried out in June 2009 are finally revealed. We found in terms of whether they were satisfied with Moodle, there was … Continue reading
Posted by: December 18, 2009
Tagged with: moodle, Surveys, 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 15 2009
LSE Teaching Day – book your place
Leave a commentAs you may have heard, the first LSE Teaching Day will take place on Tuesday 9 June. School director Howard Davies will open the proceedings, which will include a programme of workshops, seminars and panel discussions including innovative approaches to … Continue reading
Posted by: May 15, 2009
Tagged with: VLE