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Neuroscience has shown that our brains are plastic and that education, gaming and the use of technology can change our brains' connectivity, function and structure. (1, 2) But learning is more than just biology - it is affected by our learning environment and the people with whom and from whom we learn. So how do you take what neuroscience reveals about the plastic, learning brain and combine it with educational research, expertise and common sense? Klevar, in association with Flinders University, are offering you the chance to explore this with Dr Paul Howard-Jones of the University of Bristol, researcher and author of "Introducing Neuroeducational Research: Neuroscience, Education and the Brain from Contexts to Practice".

Hosted by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (Framework), this FREE three day national online conference, will be held on Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th June 2011. The conference will showcase e-learning and e-technology through a series of web-conferencing presentations and short and snapy lunch-time EXPO sessions. Participants will hear how vocational education and training (VET) practitioners, training providers and businesses are using e-learning pedagogy, e-tools and e-technologies to develop and deliver new and flexible training options.

Writing learning objectives that not only provide context, but create a roadmap to engaging activities and online content.

First, a heartfelt thanks to the Moodle community, all the people who generously share what they've learned so that we can all improve learning and teaching.  Here are some of the resources the Moodle community has created:

Moodle comes replete with blogs, forums, RSS feeds, wikis and more that enable it to be seen as an "absolute good" that opens the door, that enables powerful ideas to slay the fears our IMHO - slay the fears that leaders hold. In many schools, it can become the technology that ensures communication, collaboration, and global learning do become the predominant learning task, without losing that academic focus.

"A recent review of the University's current Learning Management System has recommended that from 2012 Macquarie University move to the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). Currently staff and students use the WebCT LMS provided by Blackboard. As this system will not be available to the University from the end of 2012 a review group was established to find a replacement."

Interesting to read of another major university that is migrating to Moodle.

Guidelines for Online Teaching Success

Why people matter: elephant spotting in the online classroom CNHS PD day presentation Jon Dron, TEKRI, June 2011

"Technology-based forces of "disruptive innovation" are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn-with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to an upcoming book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries." - quote directly from article

provides over 20,000 learning materials categorised into seven main areas: Arts, Business, Education, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Technology\n, Social Sciences.

Create and edit your LaTeX projects online with ScribTeX. with others. * Collaborate easily and quickly

This module discusses the importance of developing materials to orient students to the LMS. Materials should also be developed to help students be successful as an online student.

 iMoot is an annual event where the Moodle community of over 32 million users are provided the opportunity to join together on a global scale. This web based event engages a global audience of Moodle practitioners, administrators and decision makers in one event for an online e-conference with a difference! The core aim of the iMoot is to ignite the sense of community and sharing for which Open Source and in particular Moodle is famous for.  An event for a meeting of minds to share the best of each of us with the others. With a new iMoot event comes a new site. Please make sure to point your browser to http://www.imoot.org to check out our new site. The forums are operational and registrations are open, this year with earlybird rates for those who want to get in before the rush.

Checklist for Online Instructors: Before the course begins

The third largest Lutheran church organization in America with membership around 400,000.  Our training efforts support users here at the headquarters building in Milwaukee as well as across the US and the world. Our Moodle site is WELS.net University.  We have been using Moodle for about a year and a half to support primarily our technology system training efforts.  We do a lot of in-person training classes on our custom systems and post companion support materials online in Moodle.  In addition, we have been developing stand alone training modules for web based training.  Finally we have made use of the forum tool in Moodle as a communication vehicle for our various system user groups.  I elaborated on this in another forum post. If you are interested, you may view a live sample course that is publicly accessible.http://university.wels.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=63  It exists to support member congregations who sign up for web site hosting through our hosting vendor. .