Learning Analytics: MoodleMoot16
Day one of the Moodle Moot conference in Perth, Western Australia and I’m sitting in a workshop on Learning Analytics for the day. I’m a strong advocate for learning analytics and how you can read and understand how the analytics can greatly benefit students and tutors. There are a number of core plugins in Moodle […]
Swivl C1 – my first impressions
This week I received my Swivl C1 robot and thought I’d share my first impression. The Swivl is a robot that allows your iPhone to be used as a complete video recording session. Based on a ‘marker’ that sits around your neck or hand on a lanyard, the InfraRed marker will allow the Swivl robot […]
Connecting H5P interactive activity in Moodle to an LRS
Investigating further into H5P, I started playing with the ability to send xAPI statements to our LRS from Moodle. This will give us valuable Learning Analytics when we start using the tool for formative assessments. I downloaded the H5P plugin from the Moodle plugin site and installed into my local development copy of Moodle 3.1. I […]
Blogo – a simple way to manage your blogs
Scrolling through the app store on my Mac this morning I came across this app called Blogo. It states that you can synchronise all you blogs from your WordPress site into a simple app. Given that I like to write whenever I can, I thought I’d give it a go. This is the first entry […]
Great things in eLearning are never done by one person – they’re achieved with a team of innovators
As the elearning world continues to evolve, this statement struck a chord with me that I wanted to share with everyone. Great things in eLearning are never done by one person – they’re achieved with a team of innovators
Articulate Presenter Vs Adobe Captivate saving to LRS
Recently I’ve been doing some comparisons between Articulate Presenter 13 and Adobe Captivate 8 based the ability to record learning analytics using the xAPI (also known as Tin Can API). We’ve been using Articulate Presenter for our online learning content for a while now. As we move into the phase of pushing learning analytics to […]
The seven year education itch Adult Learning in Vocational Training now FREE
The seven year education itch – Adult Learning in Vocational Training is now making its way around the globe and is FREE worldwide! A simple Google search pulls back all the sites you can get the ebook from including Amazon, SmashWords, iBooks, Kobo plus heaps more. ISBN: 9781370951222
H5P – Using YouTube to create interactive video’s
I recently posted about a new tool to create platform agnostic elearning interactions at H5P – interactive elearning tool with HTML5 and Javascript. In a continuation from this, I wanted to see how easy it was to create interactive video’s based on a YouTube link. Recently I also discovered a free tool called mysimpleshow which is a great tool […]
Tablets in Education – it’s based on the student demographic
Recently I came across an article on EdtechReview around the statistics of iPads in education. I’ve always been a strong advocate for technology in education, and those that know me know that I think Apple products are far more superior than other products on the market, especially with the access to millions of secure apps. […]
The seven year eduction itch is now on SmashWords
After publishing the seven year education itch to iBooks, Kobo and Kindle, it’s now available as a FREE download from Smashwords. Smashwords has also become the independent publisher for the ebook and will be promoting it across multiple platforms. Click the download link below to check it out! Published: Aug. 29, 2016 Words: 12,440 Language: English ISBN: […]
