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A branded but fairly standard Moodle setup run by University of Capetown reported to be the kind of LMS portal that the new Dean of Management is very keen on (via Michele Schoenburger-Orgad)

Project to make lab sessions more useful for learners.  Builds on Moodle 2 with some custom PHP. Still a development project - see the docs at the bottom of the page for better detail.

This could be a useful addition. "The Progress Bar is a time-management tool for students.It visually shows what activities/resources a student is supposed to interact with in a course.It is colour coded so students can quickly see what they have and have not completed/viewed.The teacher selects which pre-existing activities/resources are to be included in the Progress Bar and when they should be completed/viewed."

This looks clean and has a good workflow and indication of what is required. Would be worth trying out.

This study is an exploratory case study aimed at analysing one academic's teaching in terms of conceptions of teaching and its effect on student involvement or engagement. The research has been done by drawing on Gonzalez' dimensions of online teaching and data generated by the LMS and data analytics in general. There is growing interest in the use of academic analytics. However, most of the reported work is being done at the level of institutions/groupings of courses. Improving teaching can only be done through changing the conceptions of teaching/learning held by the academics. Can individual teaching staff, reflecting on their courses, learn anything important from examining their courses through analytics? How can this be done effectively? What do they find? This study uses an academic's approach to teaching + use as an indicator of involvement, therefore, an improvement of teaching.

waikato gets a mention

I wonder whether you could run Moodle on a stick from within a dropbox?

Short article on an LMS (VLE) survey among eLearning Guild members.

Lots of screenshots

More stuff for the Analytics box. If this can grab authenticated data then return it through a dashboard display, it could give students a wide view of what they are doing - Moodle, library, facebook contacts with classmates etc.

Survey based on perceptions of preferred and actual learning in online environments based on social constructivist pedagogies.

These are DRAFT specifications that are being authored by a joint Open University (IET-OCI-VLE) working group. The document specifies improvements to the accessibility of the Moodle course management system for version 1.7.