How To Frame An Artificial Intelligence Problem
Artificial Intelligence (or AI) continues to capture the imagination of educators everywhere. Now, Human Resources professionals, educational leaders and designers seem hyped on AI-based learning in a similar vein. There is still a lot of doubt about AI’s disruptive potential in the workplace. But that has not stopped AI-related skills to already reach the top […]
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 […]
What An Online Program Manager Is, And How LMS Fits In
For organizations that produce and commercialize learning products, from pieces of content to courses to complete programs, online education is the next frontier. But if the reasons why going digital are as appealing as straightforward, lots of critical decisions must be made with care. Perhaps the first and foremost of all is finding the expertise […]
Rebranded ‘Learn Moodle 3.4 Basics’ MOOC Relaunches Next January, Sign Ups Open
Details of the next semiannual MOOC, a course targeted to newbies and expert Moodlers alike, have finally been announced. The official Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) will begin on Monday, January 8th, 2018, and will run for four weeks. The “Basic” course introductions forum will be available as soon as the next year begins. While […]
Level Up! Kept Your Moodle Game Strong. Now, Level Up! Plus Will Bring Your A-Game
Level up! is a Moodle plugin that adds gamification cues to a Moodle course or site in just a few clicks. It first emerged during a “Project Week” at Moodle HQ back in 2014. Since then, the plugin has only grown and, as of September 2017, more than 2,200 Moodle sites have reported using it. As students […]
How To ‘Progressify’ Your Moodle Site Into A Progressive Web Application (Lesson One)
Mobile browsers for Android such as Firefox, Opera, or Chrome support Progressive Web Applications. PWAs are somewhere between a mobile page and a native Android app. Unless the features involve real-time graphics processing or other features that require high-use computational resources, a PWA is surprisingly capable of offering an experience indistinguishable from mobile apps. It can […]
Australian Fitness Academy And Branded Moodle App, A Match That Just Fits
There is no better way to describe in one word the partnership between the Australian Fitness Academy and Moodle as they develop a branded Moodle mobile app: Fit. In an interview with moodle.com, James Poynter, Business Operation Manager at the Victoria-based provider of educational programs for aspiring fitness trainers and teachers, discusses the Academy’s decision […]
Moodlerooms Launches App Branding Service
Moodlerooms, the Blackboard-flavored version of Moodle, is launching its very own App Branding Service. Comparable to Moodle’s Branded Mobile Apps, the new service transcends the desktop LMS experience and brings it into the mobile arena. A new video describes the opportunities, challenges, and ways Moodlerooms customers can get started. With the mobile device as an […]
Check Out Mootivated, A New Concept In Moodle Gamification
Disponible en Español. Mootivated adds a gamification layer on top of a Moodle Site. It consists of a mobile app that provides virtual rewards to students in the form of coins, which they can later spend on a virtual store. It is connected to Moodle via a plugin, which gives admins a dashboard to manage rewards […]
End-To-End Moodle Mobile Testing Project Chosen For Google Summer Of Code 2017
Adding several technologies and frameworks into one streamlined workflow for the Moodle Mobile apps is the goal of the Moodle-focused project approved for 2017’s Google Summer of Code (GSOC) program. The twelfth edition of GSOC is also the twelfth where Moodle has been present. Since 2005, Google gives students with above-average computer skills the opportunity […]
