Could @KhanAcademy have created the ultimate LMS for Mathematics?
If you haven't seen this wonderful presentation by Salman Khan at TED this year you should definitely watch it. At 12:30 into the video Salman starts to showcase the custom tracking dashboards that they utilize as a school piloting his [...]
17 #Instructure video tutorials by @mpkisow
Mike Kisow has posted a few Instructure Canvas course building tutorials at Vimeo.com which highlight some of the features of the fledgling LMS. All told there are 17 videos highlighting everything on the LMS from course construction/creation, to [...]
#Blackboard 9 vs #Moodle 2.0: A Head to Head Comparison
Ralf Otto of Ruhr-Universität, Bochum in Germany provided me with a wonderful resource he's created recently. Ruhr-Universität utilizes both Moodle and Blackboard (as a growing number of colleges and higher education institutions are doing) and [...]
Blackboard’s Free CourseSites Launches for the General Public #edtech #blackboard
Free Blackboard for instructors is now widely available according to a message sent to registered users of the site. CourseSites.com is the free Blackboard classroom site available to instructors. Through it's service faculty/instructors can [...]
Moodlerooms aims to add value to Joule with Content Partnership #moodle
Many things contribute to a great LMS: ease of use, functionality and tools, look and feel, etc. But content may be king of the hill when it comes to quality learning experiences online. Moodlerooms, an official Partner of the Moodle Trust has [...]
Can Sophia.org rate learning content for millions of learners?
Seemingly a huge undertaking, Sophia, a new social teaching and learning platform is aiming to vet user collected, organized and created content into well-vetted, reviewed and rated learning objects for consumption by learners around the world. [...]
End of Life Policy for 1.9 has some Moodlers Worried
The "official" (but undocumented) end-of-life cycle for Moodle versions was clarified in the Moodle.org forums this weekend by lead developer and Moodle Founder, Martin Dougiamas. According to Martin, Moodle's long standing policy has been to [...]
