Open SDGs: Could Nobel-Winning Economics Bolster EdTech’s Global Impact?
More Open EdTech SDGs Another year, another controversy born out of the winners of the Nobel prize. When it comes to the bitterly political issue of poverty alleviation, more massive projects probably deserve more recognition than this year’s laureates, Esther Duflo (the second woman Nobel in economics), Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer. Not saying they […]
UNESCO Steps Up To Universalize Open Educational Resources (OER) With… A Declaration?
More Open EdTech for SDGs Is quality learning content a universal right? If UNESCO statements are any indications, yes. In 2012, The Paris OER Declaration coined the term for “Open Educational Resources.” Based on principles an statements including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Millenium Declaration, OER are conceived as content resources that […]
Open EdTech 4 SDGs Update: Teleoperator Training To Gamify Poverty Alleviation?
Kentaro Yoshifuji envisions a future platform in which people —to be blunt, those earning the lowest wages possible around the world— deliver minimum wage-type jobs anywhere on earth with the help of robots. You are likely to hear more from him within the year, mainly because the 2020 Tokyo Olympics are around the corner. Which […]
Host Your Own Interconnected Learning Social Network: MoodleNet Federated Play 101
Well into its user testing stage, MoodleNet is readying what is perhaps its boldest proposition: The Federated social network. If successful, it has the potential to disrupt the standard in social media today, by tackling issues including censorship, algorithmic bias, privacy, and centralization in particular. The latest announcement offers details into the rules through which […]
Open Industry 4 SDGs Pulse: Free EdTech To Plug Into Your Learning
Our Open EdTech for SDGs Tracker initiative has been met with broad and positive reception, and we could not be happier. But more importantly, it has brought to attention the many contributing inititiatives in the intersection of EdTech and Open Source, as a starting point for the Open movement at large. This was our original […]
LWMN016: MoodleMoot US 2017 Miami ‘Top Ten’ Special | Week of November 13th, 2017
Hey there – welcome to the Last Week in MoodleNews, I’m Stephen Ladek from MoodleNews.com. In this episode I’ll be talking about the most important stories from the Moodleverse for the week of November 13th, 2017. I’ll be discussing my top 10 favorite things from MoodleMoot US Miami and much more. Before we get started, a quick reminder […]
LWMN015: The Moodle Education Team, Classroom Anxiety, Quiz Templates | Week of November 6th – 12th, 2017
In this episode I’ll be talking about the most important stories from the Moodleverse for the week of November 6th, 2017. In this episode, I’ll be discussing the new Education Team at Moodle, the rise of classroom anxiety, Moodle’s Quiz Templates and much, much more. Page 1: THE WEEK THAT WAS First, we reported on some of the […]
How To Collaborate On Moodle Theme Creation With The CodeLobster IDE
By Stanislav Ustimenko, codelobster.com The programmer/freelancer has to constantly learn. Recently, I got the opportunity to take part in a project-based Moodle. I realized Moodle is not just a content management tool, it is a functional Learning Management System that supports just about anything you want to create and build into your own educational portal. […]
LWMN003: Week of August 14-20, 2017
Hey there! Welcome to the Last Week in MoodleNews, I’m Stephen Ladek from MoodleNews.com. In this episode we’ll be talking about the most important stories from the Moodleverse for the week of August 14th, 2017. This week I’ll be covering the Moodle Hub, Moodle as an assistive technology, Moodle themes and much more. But before […]
Moodle vs TotaraLMS: A Comparison One Year After The Fork
By Iris Vermeren, Channel Marketing Manager, Totara Learning In 2015, when it was announced that TotaraLMS would fork their code, MoodleNews.com posted a comparison of Moodle vs Totara. Now, a year later, we thought it was high time to give an update as to how these two LMS platforms compare. Many people have a hard time understanding the […]
