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I was rather amazed at the implications of this video in terms of where public education came from. Then, I was discussing this with a friend who said they had been exposed to the same ideas when he was in a course on the history and philosophy of education at the Univ. of Ariz. in 1970. I find it disturbing not just that the philosophy of education has such roots, but that it has been known for such a long time. It seems that this would provide some sort of imperative for improvement and change. What do you think?

I have been a critical observer of the educational system since kindergarten. I am amazed that I became a teacher in the public school system as that was the last thing I had considered. I had initially wanted to be a dancer but left for Europe to study art. I left Toronto right after high school when life stepped in. I became an English language teacher to adults in a foreign country due to unforeseen circumstances. How strange! But, I never gave up. I have been doing all I can to break the public school system from the inside. It has been quite challenging, but with some terrific personal rewards.

SLOODLE is a free and open source project which integrates the multi-user virtual environments of Second Life® and/or OpenSim with the Moodle® learning-management system.

This is a discussion of connectivist learning, particularly the teacher's role(s).

Dear Members of IT4ALL, 2012 is going to be a great year for teaching and learning with technology. You are invited to learn how to enhance your class with technology by learning to teach and be the administrator of Moodle course and learning management system. There are many free and low cost workshops on google docs, blended learning, learning to install and use wordpress.org, how to create WebQuests, Writing Academic Papers, creating e-portfolios and how to integrate technology into your classes. You are invited to join our small group (under 20) low cost 6-week workshops for Moodle for Teacher Administrators at the basic ($150) and advanced ($120) levels.The two workshops provide participants with two Moodle labs to practice as administrators of Moodle. One lab is for 1.9 and one for 2.2. Participants learn how to install and manage Moodle as administrators and facilitate their own online courses. Each participant receive individual attention throughout the workshop. For more information, please contact me and the course syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/198FgVeVX26bZatNBNJehHWc_inCV90w2u85TsnYroqk/edit?hl=en_US and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WtfoGZgPKnMnVg2UDuSbszva2FrPOA4WQRAxy3KJtqA/edit?hl=en_US Have a wonderful holiday season and a great 2012!!! Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch, Ed.D

Multitenancy Moodle and LearnerScript Multitenancy in Moodle Learning Management System (aka Moodle LMS) is a big deal in many aspects of eLearning. The reasons for that for medium to large organizations are obvious and lucid - bringing their individual companies' L&D under one umbrella LMS, with the least possible investment. For that reason, the cost-effective multitenancy Moodle paves the way for the easy control and dispensation of L&D to each company within it, without the interference of them one another. IOMAD, Workplace, and some Corporate LMSes are the best examples of multitenant Moodle platforms...

A brief about Quiz in Moodle The courses in the Moodle Learning Management System (aka Moodle LMS) form its essence. And there are various methods to assess the learning experience of your folks. They include Assignments, Polls, Surveys, and Quizzes. Moodle Quiz is part and parcel of a Moodle course. In the sense, if you are a (Moodle) admin or teacher, you can add a quiz, to check your learners' progress, across the course. In order to form a quiz, you need questions from a Question Bank of your course. It contains a variety of Quiz Question Types in Moodle, which we will discuss separately in another post. So, you save these quiz questions of a course here for usage as and when required...

Let me put it straight and to the point, why hire a Learning Management System (LMS) administrator (admin, hereafter)? You think of doing the admin job without him. Or you think the LMS vendor will support you 24/7. Or you think, still further, that you or one of the managing folks handles it as and when required...

Almost every industry keeps pace up with technology for effective processes, resource management, and innovative solutions. However, there is an exception - the education industry lags behind in embracing eLearning tools and technologies. There is no iota of doubt that traditional classrooms and learning methods offer indelible one-on-one or one-to-many learning experiences across the campuses. The Higher Edu organizations are stuck in a rut. To my dismay, they aren't the pioneers to embrace the technologies, but the opposite...

The administrator role in Moodle learning management system (LMS) is one of the three default roles. And it's crucial; something like it's akin to the role of the captain in a ship, given the tasks the role performs. So, here in this blog post, we will focus our discussion on the important tasks (at least a few of them!)of a Moodle admin. By the way, this blog will be helpful (we hope so!) to those geeks who wanna take up the Moodle administration as their long-term career. Let's dive into the tasks of a Moodle admin straight away...

6 Helpful Moodle Statistics Reports for Students Welcome to this LearnerScript Moodle statistics report for students explanatory short video. In this video, you will see how a student or learner can log in to his LearnerScript account and check his Moodle course statistics reports or report progress using the LearnerScript tiles feature. First, you need to log in as a "student" to check the LearnerScript dashboard. once logged into LearnerScript you can see the following Moodle statistics reports which are helpful for every Moodle learner or student. 1. Enrolled Courses: This tile/statistics report gives the count of total enrolled courses by the student. He can see his course participation from the same report. 2. Site Visits: The objective behind the statistics report is to figure out how frequently your student visits the Moodle learning management system (LMS). 3. Average Time-spent on LMS: this report shows students the average amount of time he spends overall on his Moodle activities. 4. No Login Courses: this report shows a student that he has not logged in yet to so and so (number of) courses. 5. My Quizzes: This tile reports the learning analytics related to the quizzes on the courses enrolled by the Moodle students. It makes a comparison-kind of things about the quizzes, total quizzes across the enrolled courses, and the completed ones to the student. 6. My Assignments: Since assignments play a crucial role in the learning process of a Moodle student, this report becomes useful. Using this Moodle statistics report a student can make himself aware of his learning ability in finishing up his assignments. So these are the six Moodle statistics reports in general. However, customize any of these reports or create a new one on LearnerScript. Because this Moodle analytics plugin is such a custom-friendly one for Moodle users.

How to Check Top 10 Participation Moodle Forum Reports? In this LearnerScript features explanatory short video you will see how we can check the top 10 most and least participated Moodle Forum details based on posts count & discussion count on LearnerScript reporting plugin. Let's dive into the video now! In this LearnerScript New Dashboard, we can see the "FOrum participation by Learners "table that contains 17 Forums and their progress details. Let's check the top 10 most & least participated Moodle forums based on Forum discussion counts in this "Forum participation report" table. To do so You need to limit the table results to 10 then you need to sort this table by the "Total Discussions" column in descending order! You can see here the top 10 most participated Moodle Forum details are shown below. You can see the "Forum" in "Finance" Moodle course has the most discussions count with 9 Forum Discussions and followed by other courses forums... Similarly, you can check the Least discussions count Moodle Forums details. To do so you need to sort this table by "Total Discussions" column in Ascending order! Now you can see here the least discussions Moodle forums with 1 discussion count and followed by other forums. ================ Similarly, Let's check the top 10 most & least participated Moodle forums details based on Forum posts count. here you need to limit the results to 10 and sort by posts column in descending order. You can see here the top 10 Moodle Forum posts details are shown below. You can see the "Social Forum" in "Healthcare Marketplace" Moodle course has the most number of forum posts count with 4 posts and followed by other courses forums... Similarly, you can check the Least posted Moodle Forums details. you need to sort this table by "posts" column in Ascending order! Now you can see here the System testing forum 2 has the least participated Moodle forums with 0 posts count and followed by other forums...