Moodle Collaborative Research

Poster sized guide for teachers comparing functionality and pedagogical advantages of Moodle tools.

Poster sized guide for teachers comparing functionality and pedagogical advantages of Moodle tools.

Looking to enhance your Moodle course, is it looking drab? Here are a few simple tips that make your course shine.

Looking to enhance your Moodle course, is it looking drab? Here are a few simple tips that make your course shine.

Interesting statistics on the penetration of Moodle at Higher Education.

" Education Elements has a terrific page along with a video to describe exactly what blended learning is, what it hopes to achieve, and what it looks like."

Informative archives from the Univseity of Sussex eLearning team that share their customizations of moodle's interface.

"New Federal Report on Online Learning Available: The US Department of Education released a report called "Understanding the Implications of Online Learning for Educational Productivity" this past January. In the United States, online learning alternatives are proliferating rapidly. Recent estimates suggest that 1.5 million elementary and secondary students participated in some form of online learning in 2010 (Wicks 2010). The term online learning can be used to refer to a wide range of programs that use the Internet to provide instructional materials and facilitate interactions between teachers and students and in some cases among students as well. Online learning can be fully online, with all instruction taking place through the Internet, or online elements can be combined with face-to-face interactions in what is known as blended learning (Horn and Staker 2010)."

"The manifesto is a series of brief statements that attempt to capture what is generative and productive about online teaching, course design, writing, assessment and community. "

"In the first installment in our new monthly column, blended learning experts Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker advise schools to skip the "best practices" and instead seek innovations that work in their unique circumstances."

"A growing, community-contributed collection of research into LMS (Learning Management Systems) and particularly Moodle. "