FINCA Impact Finance And A Moodle Roadmap For Humanitarian Development
Why would an impact-based humanitarian organization make such a frivolous expense in the branded version of the otherwise free Moodle apps? Because it is not. Previously in MoodleNews: Impact Microfinance By Way Of Branded Moodle Mobile FINCA Impact Finance represents 20 microlenders focused on low-income customers. And in this business, technology is the […]
Blackboard Is All In With ‘Folder View’ Course Format For Moodle
Moodle and Moodle-based LMS enjoy a different course format, courtesy of dashing new Blackboard Open. Its name is Folder View. Sure enough, it bundles course content, activities and supporting resources into a unit. At this point, however, it is safe to claim the word is no longer primarily a metaphor, as most of us are […]
How To Install Sans Forgetica, The Font Backed By Cognitive Psychology To Up Retention, In Moodle
What, and why is Sans Forgetica? Designers and researchers from the Behavioral Business Lab at RMIT University, in Melbourne, finally teamed up to put the idea of “desirable difficulty” into practice. For a few years, research on the effect of “roadblocks,” or more scientifically, “perceptual disfluency” during cognitive tasks, suggest that, at least in some […]
Lambda Solutions, Zoola Analytics, And The Curious Case Of xAPI Underachievement
xAPI is one of the most groundbreaking technologies that have ever fallen upon the EdTech world. Its presence will be felt for decades and will transform every participating solution in the ecosystem. All the previous statements are true, widespread, and largely accepted. So why is the excitement lacking? Where is the “killer” xAPI app? Could […]
In A Full Stack Moodle World, LAMP Goes A Long Way. Monthly Moodle Job & Trends Update
We continue to track technological or otherwise notable keywords in Moodle job postings. Besides jobs listed at moodle.org, we checked at the latest entries at freelance site UpWork. The posting must mention Moodle explicitly. The results stay on par with previous trends, with PHP, CSS and HTML at the top. A surprise is the decline […]
Breaking Down The Text Formatting Options In Moodle
For the many options available in Moodle’s default text editors, it is normal that some go under sight. But the truth is, you might be missing out on a mode that’s more fitting to your user scenario. Out of the box, Moodle offers the Atto editor, but admins can switch it for TinyMCE. Almost identical […]
Contrastes en uso de Redes Sociales por parte de los Adolescentes se Agudizan, Reporta ‘Common Sense’
Available in English. La organización promotora de hábitos saludables en el uso de la tecnología y los medios, Common Sense, ha publicado su Reporte “Redes Sociales, Vidas Sociales” 2018. Es la secuela de su estudio en 2012, examinando el espectro de interacciones entre los adolescentes y las redes sociales virtuales, basado en 1,141 entrevistas a […]
Meet The Moodle Users Association Committee Dream Team For 2018-9
The ten new, brave, young, proud members of Moodle User’s Association Committee of Management have been chosen. New Chair Richard Samson introduced everyone, tasked with bringing “fresh energy and ideas to help the association rise to ongoing and new challenges as we seek to support and enhance Moodle.” They had to be ten to comply […]
6 Years And A Life Time Of Teens Relationship With Online Social Media, Common Sense Reports
Healthy tech use and media consumption advocacy nonprofit Common Sense is releasing “Social Media, Social Life, 2018,” a research report examining the spectrum of interactions between teens and social media, based on interviewing 1,141 US kids 13 to 17 years old. In general terms, personality and socioeconomic conditions mediate the benefits, affordances and the quality […]
Amid Low Adoption, DoD R&D Will Keep xAPI Alive And That’s Good News
The evolution of technological innovation and standards, to this day, including commercial variations, owes the military industrial complex a great deal of gratitude. Corporations continue to enjoy the boons of public funding going into innovation, which in the case of EdTech barely begin with DARPA’s better known initiatives, from the onset of the Internet to […]
