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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.

The LTI Tool Provider module (lti_tool_provider) allows a Drupal site to serve as a Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Tool in any Learning Management System (LMS) supporting the LTI standard. (http://developers.imsglobal.org/) Example LTI compliant LMSs are Angel, Blackboard Learn, Moodle and Sakai.

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

"Email alone is no longer an effective tool to reach today's students and many students rarely log into your institution's learning management system, however, they do check their phones and Facebook accounts multiple times per day. ConnectYard's QuickConnect Widget can help your institution make its learning management systems more social, interactive and engaging. QuickConnect allows any user within a course to post homework and study questions using a simple HTML badge that can be easily added to popular learning management systems, including Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai and others. Those questions are then delivered to other class members through their favorite social networking site, mobile phone or email. Both students and instructors have the option of replying to questions via Facebook, Twitter, text message, or ema"

Learn how a Gulf Highlands Elementary 4th grade teacher is using innovative techniques to enhance her students' learning.

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:

Presentation on learning design using tech tools and LMS

Learning Platforms : Moodle Gallery

Multi-tenancy has been a hot topic in the Moodle community for some time now and something we are often asked about. Now that it has been dropped from the Moodle 2.3 roadmap a lot of organisations have had to revise their plans on how to achieve multi-tenancy using Moodle. In this white paper Synergy Learning Technical Director, Alex Büchner, introduces the concept of multi-tenancy, outlines the benefits and offers three approaches to achieving multi-tenancy in Moodle.

"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.

The Webcast Academy is a hands on, collaborative training center for people interested in learning how to produce and host live, interactive webcasts.

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.

Courses in Moodle take by and large a pretty much prominent role. And Moodle course reports make you inspect how the learning experiences are. You get a good number of Moodle reports out of their courses, if only you require to assess their and their folks' learning (or, training) patterns. This blog post presents to you some of the most common Moodle course reports. Interestingly these 9 Moodle reports are available on LearnerScript, the Moodle analytics tool, as the Canned Reports. Right, let's get started with the nine Moodle reports related to the analytics of courses...

There is no learning management system (LMS) like Moodle LMS. Indisputable! (Why so? See our blog on Moodle advantages). Since Moodle LMS is a popular and open-source LMS. A large number of educational institutions tend to use it for their learning needs. As the strength of an organization varies from a few hundred to thousands, it faces a real challenge. It becomes a challenge 'how to use Moodle as a student.' In this blog post, let's help you simplify things in Moodle for you. If you are a student and are using Moodle at your organization, this post will come to your rescue. Now let's look at things on how to use Moodle as a student. One by one...

"There is nothing that beats mind maps when it comes to increasing one's retention rates. Mind maps enable our minds to visually process information creating thus strong neural pathways to hold the learned information for an extended period of time"

from twitter colleague @theother66; learn to use moodle