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"Version 2.0 Moodle 2.0, our biggest release ever, is coming together after two years of development. It contains a huge number of core changes to the platform, most of which are designed to give 3rd party developers more flexibility, scalability and safety. The timetable is designed to deliver Moodle 2.0 in time for the new school year in the northern hemisphere and currently looks like this: * March 2010: Moodle 2.0 Beta release * April, May, June 2010: intensive beta testing and bug fixing (freeze on new features) * 1 July 2010: Moodle 2.0 production release You can track our current progress in detail on the Moodle 2.0 Planning document. Please remember that this document is frequently updated and details can change a lot! Draft release notes at Moodle 2.0 release notes. Please add notable items while they are fresh in your mind. The notes will be edited before the final release. System requirements Since Moodle 2.0 is such a major release, we are allowing ourselves some increases in the requirements. * PHP 5.2.8 is now the minimum version supported. (We are aware that several important linux distros are still shipping earlier versions like 5.2.6, but we need at least version 5.2.x for the new File API, and there are bugs in 5.2.7 and earlier that we could not work around.) This allows developers to write cleaner code using the more recent features of PHP, and will also improve user experience. * Databases should be one of the following: o MySQL 5.0.25 or later (InnoDB storage engine highly recommended) o PostgreSQL 8.3 or later o Oracle 10.2 or later o MS SQL 2005 or later * When upgrading to Moodle 2.0, you must have Moodle 1.9 or later. if you are using an earlier version of Moodle (eg 1.8.x) then you need to upgrade to Moodle 1.9.x first. New Community features * Community hub - Moodle.com Makes it easy for teachers to find other courses to download as templates fo

Jon Mott David Wiley

Link to OU LabSpace with links to videos of new question types developed for 2.1/2.2.

Adoption, use and management of open educational resources to enhance teaching and learning in Australia - list of resources

The Final project report is now available on the OLT website: http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/resources/CG10_1687_Bossu_Report_2014.pdf This and another project deliverable can be found here: http://www.olt.gov.au/project-adoption-use-and-management-open-educational-resources-enhance-teaching-and-learning-austral

"Opencast Matterhorn - Open Source Lecture Capture and Media Platform"

"Radical transparency: Open access as a key concept in wiki pedagogy"

Open office suite, word processing, presentation, spreadsheet. Compatible with MS Office 2007 and looks VERY similar

A Bill that would require government agencies to collaborate and edit free, open source, colelge textbooks

NetSpot, Moodlerooms and Blackboard join forces to form the foundation of a Global Open Source Services Group, supporting open source education projects including Moodle.

Blackboard Education Open Source Services

The lessons learned at Vanderbilt are consistent with lessons learned in other MOOCs offered elsewhere. The lessons include, briefly: Teaching online is a team effort. There's more to MOOCs than lecture videos. Open content is our friend The cognitive diversity seen in MOOCs is far greater than in closed courses MOOC students are well-motivated students Cognitive Diversity + Intrinsic Motivations = Crowdsourcing Success MOOC students can be producers as well as consumers of information Accommodating students on different time tables can be challenging Instructor presence is important, even in a MOOC Good stuff; good article.

This second report updates proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education. You can see a summary of each innovation at the menu on the right.