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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.

USING MOODLE (1.8) is a free e-book focusing on the world's most popular Open Source Learning Management System

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

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.

 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.

This web site corresponds to the book of the same title by Bill Shackelford. It discusses effective strategies for designing e-learning systems.

"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

using powerpoint to present learning on line - but not your usual PPT!

widgets that can be embeded in your site, and hosted services that you link to. Updated regularly.

After several interupted weeks I have finally completed the upto date version of  my Moodle for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide, this time for Moodle 2.0.Moodle 2.0 for Teachers:- An Illustrated Guide, is designed to be a guide for users of Moodle 2.0.What will you learn from the manual?  * Create and manage course content through adding files, resources, linking to resources, creating and linking to a variety of activities.* Create quizzes and assessments.* Create and run forums and blogs within Moodle.* Embed multi-media, social media; modify blocks to make your Moodle site more dynamic and webpage like.* Create pedagogic sound courses.* This is all facilitated by the use of an illustrated guide using actual screen shots.