Way back in 2005 I visited Alton College to look at a Moodle module they had created to make access to the NLN materials easier for teaching staff. They’d also invested quite a lot of effort into developing individual learning plans for students to access online. The plans included target grades and a progress tracker […]
Month: November 2012
At the recent JISC Assessment & Feedback programme meeting, I ran a session with the Strand B projects in which we revisited some questions we first discussed a year ago. Thus, instead of ‘What do you want to happen as a result of your project’s assessment and feedback innovation?’ we talked about what has happened. […]
Simon Booth and Stephen Vickers are tireless champions of practical interoperability. I’ve had the great pleasure of watching their double act at events like Dev8ed. Dev8ed Interview: Stephen Vickers on Vimeo. The IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification is supported by all major VLE platforms (including Blackboard, Moodle, WebCT, Desire2Learn, and Sakai) and offers a […]
Paul Glister coined the term “Digital Literacy” in 1997 to suggest a more active engagement with new media, emphasising it was about mastering “ideas, not keystrokes”. As we implement solutions in our institutions that require increasing levels of digitally literacy, we bump into the problem of “mainstreaming”. This is frequently envisaged as a technical process, […]
I’ve just finished a Skype call with Tony Toole who is preparing a presentation for Session 3 in the JISC Innovating e-Learning Activity week. Tony was the project manager for the JISC “SWANI” (Secure Work-Based Learning Administration through Networked Infrastructure). The Project successfully created a digitised document management system for the administration of Work Based […]