China, A Predictor Of EdTech To Come: Business Pulse Featuring VIPKid, Youdao, Xiaoyang, and TikTok?
Some sources could be partially or fully in Chinese. On the heels of Apsara 2019, the Alibaba Cloud showcase conference, we come back to the companies shaping the EdTech landscape of China and the rest of the world. Not a learning or education company per se, Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure to a growing number of […]
eCreators Talking Moodle Special: A Peek Through Moodle Workplace Blinds
eCreators Talking Moodle eCreators’ Dani and Prathiba made room from the regular scheduling of the “Talking Moodle” series to let us sneak a very tiny peek on Moodle Workplace, the new gamble to conquer the corporate’s hearts and minds. Along with a few selected screenshots, this is what the team had to reveal for Moodle’s […]
Decentralized Ecosystem Pulse: All Hail The W3C! (25th Anniversary Update)
On October 1st, the World Wide Web Consortium celebrated 25 years of foundation. It was envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web itself and Director of the W3C since 1994. The W3C has accomplished its goal of “convening industry, researchers, and the global community of Web developers to create freely available and […]
A Re-Introduction To H5P: What You Need To Know About The Most Exciting LMS Integrator Yet
Corrections made on November 8. The news about the imminent “merge” between Moodle and H5P was a very welcome news, celebrated across the board. It may still be possible that many are living under the open source rock and are not fully aware of what H5P means, or why they should be excited. Many are […]
The ‘Poodler’ Stops By Our Open (EdTech) Bar — Justin Hunt Ventures Into Marketing
The first version of Poodll became available in the Moodle Plugin directory in 2012. A few generations later, the audio and video recording plugin family packs more features than ever, has delved into AI and has helped new ideas hit the ground running. Read Seed is coming along nicely! Over the years, a small but […]
Usability Lessons For All From A UX Critique Of Canvas LMS
Arif Kabir believes it’s time for the User Experience (UX) of the Canvas LMS to “refresh.” But competitors should not start delighting on anybody’s misfortunes just yet. The LMS space is a curious place. Most industry veterans realize, often to their frustration, that having the most or best features does not equal a better foothold […]
What Is Growth? No Clear Winner In U.S. LMS Higher Ed Switches
Another report from the Higher Ed LMS North American space shows little surprise for Canvas LMS fans: Instructure, Canvas LMS parent company, is a customer of the data reporting service. Despite the victory lap around the cord pie, investors aren’t terribly excited. After the company’s latest quarterly call, the stock rose modestly and is now […]
Check Out These ‘Ginux’-Based Instructional Design Secrets For Effective LMS
Gisele Bruger, MSc, Computer Scientist with a decade and a half of devotion to the Moodle community in Brazil, including the twice-yearly MoodleMoot, recently invited the community in São Luís where the last one took place last month into her open kitchen, to share with everyone her favorite Moodle recipes. “Ginux” is the name that […]
LearnDash 3.0 Released, For Organizations That Put Content Before Learning
The WordPress plugin that wants you to see it asa full-blown LMS has announced the launch of LearnDash 3.0, an update that aims to set “an entirely new standard for online courses.” With this release, the company claims to have produced “most cutting-edge online course platform on the market across the entire e-learning industry.” «LearnDash […]
Could Moodle 3.8 Finally Kickstart A Culture Of Analytics In Your Organization?
In a recent release, Moodle has shared a slim taste of the new enhancements coming for its Learning Analytics engine. (Formerly Moodle Inspire.) These new features are expected to become available on the open source version of the LMS’s 3.8 release, scheduled for November, 2019. They are an effort to make the powerful open source […]
