RASA E-learning

The architect of early intervention in Australian psychiatry, Patrick McGorry, has abandoned the idea pre-psychosis should be listed as a new psychiatric disorder.

Great summary of active listening techniques and research list at end.

AlphaPlus provides training, services, tools and resources to adult literacy agencies and educators in Ontario and Canada, serving adult learners in Deaf, Native, Francophone and Anglophone literacy streams. We are funded provincially by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities. Our mission is to increase adult literacy skills through the use of digital technologies by supporting educators and stakeholders with research, tools and training.

Interview with Esben Esther Pirelli Benestad, who argues there are at least  7 gender identities, not just two.

An interesting demographic about the ten services provided by education in the tertiary sector. PDF download available

yes I love dmy lego as a boy, this helped me get a btter grip on Moodle, I am now a real fan

how notions of gaming can influence online learning

Personality Disorders: The Controllers, Abusers, Manipulators, and Users in Relationships, Page 1

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Moodle docs page for Moodle 2.2

This is in BETA, but looks really, really promising! A sub page module for Moodle courses, that FINALLY allows the Course Outline to be just that, and allow for sub pages with resources and activities hanging directly off them. Will save DAYS of manually linking!

Executive Summary Severe overspending habits can be highly resistant to change because they share many characteristics of addictions. Prochaska's Stages-of-Change Model has been used effectively in treating addictions and has been helpful in debt counseling. This article explains the Stages-of-Change Model using language easily accessible to financial advisers and their clients. Five stages of change are described in this paper: denial, ambivalence, preparation, action, and maintenance-along with the client's potential slide into relapse. The article provides guidance for assessing the overspending client's readiness to change and describes techniques for moving clients toward lasting success in controlling overspending habits.

Chart and explanation based on Di Clemente and Prochaska's work

Professor Carlo Di Clemente who with Professor Prochaska developed the trans-theoretical stages of change model.

Why we need to move beyond text assignments in our courses...

On November 9 2011, Adobe announced that it will stop development of the Flash player for mobile devices following the release of v11.1 for Android and BlackBerry.  (http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html (Opens in new window)) As a result, at their meeting in Melbourne on 29th November 2011 the E-standards Expert Group decided that as of 2013 it will no longer recommend Flash (swf) as a content format  for delivery of learner content in the VET sector, because it can no longer be deemed interoperable across the existing recommended devices. This does not mean that support is withdrawn for existing content, or that  the recommendation is withdrawn immediately. It does mean that content developers should consider transitioning to alternative methods (for example JavaScript/HTML) of delivering accessible interactive content. Unfortunately HTML5 is not recommended at this time for use in development of content intended for widespread use in the VET sector because of the inconsistent implementation by browser developers.  Please see the E-standards for Training 2011 HTML5 Research report. If you choose to use HTML5 functionality, you should provide a fall-back mechanism for browsers not supporting that element.