For over a decade now, the New Media Consortium has issued an annual Horizon Report, detailing the six technologies that it predicts will soon impact colleges and universities. These predictions identify emerging technologies on three "horizons": four to five years, two to three years, and one year or less. Source: hackeducation.com See on Scoop.it - EdTech 2.0 The post The Horizon Report: A History of Ed-Tech Predictions appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Learning analytics is the study of student behaviour through patterns in their digital world: how often, when and where they log on; the digital resources that they use; the web sites they visit; the social media platforms that they use. At the present time, this is a nascent field of interest in most colleges and [...] The post The rise and rise of learning analytics appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

I spent some time this summer investigating the potential use of badges in my courses for the coming fall, 2013 semester. I realize that some students will embrace this concept and others will not. I thought it appropriate to provide an overview of the process of working with earned badges on this weblog. In subsequent [...] The post Badges and Moodle - Mark DuBois Weblog appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Here are the steps I went through (along with screen captures).In Illustrator, I created a new file with a single artboard. I really didn’t care that much about the size as I wanted to have something which would be roughly 150 x 150 pixels as a finished product. I just needed room to work. The [...] The post Badges and Moodle Part 2 - Mark DuBois Weblog appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Assessing students based on learning goals is great, but this new gamified approach I stumbled upon has potential to be a game-changer for my students. Source: tapintoteenminds.com See on Scoop.it - 21st Century Assessment The post Standards Based Grading GAMIFIED With Badges appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Moodle provides a great platform to aid in moving education online. But as with any new and disruptive technology, some people - teachers and students alike - are reluctant to adopt and even embrace it. However, there are ways to increase user confidence so that they can explore the software and in turn gain maximum [...] The post 4 Ways to Increase User Confidence in Moodle appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Web Analytics for your ePortfolio from matthieua Mahara offers basic statistics by default, but advanced reporting functionnality is not available. By using a separate tool that integrates well with Mahara, such as the open source Piwik, Mahara administrators can benefit from a multitude of insightful analytics reports. This presentation will showcase some examples of such [...] The post Web Analytics for your ePortfolio appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

"Joomdle - Seamlessly integrate Joomla with the leading Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle." Change: + Added support for course summary files + Added support for badges + Added new option to Joomdlehooks plugin to choose event to use for SSO + Added new option to enable/disable welcome email on course purchases + Added support for [...] The post Joomdle 1.0.1 released appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Jisc, Apereo and the Lace Project held a workshop in Paris on 6th February to discuss the ethical and legal issues of learning analytics.  The focus of this meeting was the draft taxonomy of issues that I prepared previously.  It was extremely helpful to have comments from experts in the area to refine the list, which is forming the basis for [...] The post A taxonomy of ethical, legal and logistical issues of learning analytics v1.0 appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Moodle is a free software built to help educators to create online courses and help teachers to interact with students. It’s one of the most popular e-learning platforms around the world. And of course, it runs pretty well on Nginx webserver. So, today I’m going to show you how to get the latest version of Moodle [...] The post Nginx Moodle Configuration appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

What makes some digital learning initiatives successful and others not? That’s the focus of a 2014 study released Wednesday by the America’s Promise Alliance’s Center for Promise. The study is titled "Wired to Learn: K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom," and it examines how five school districts implemented digital learning strategies to help students succeed [...] The post Researchers Hunt for ‘Secret Sauce’ of Digital Learning Success appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The development of formal thinking and logical reasoning skills is necessary to achieving deeper learning. Educators should first immerse themselves in professional development focused on building inquiry skills, possibly within the field of philosophy. Learning to think deeply is a prerequisite to planning lessons with flexibility and creativity, both of which are critical aspects to [...] The post Preparing a Classroom Culture for Deeper Learning appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The excitement about CBE is justified. CBE gives shape and direction to the long overdue need to personalize learning in higher education; it allows students to progress at their own pace; it incorporates the practice of prior learning assessment (indirectly through self-paced learning or directly through credential recognition), and offers a logical framework for aligning [...] The post Competency-Based Education: The Ripple Effects of Taking Assessment to the Next Level appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

School would be a lot easier for administrators and teachers if technology were left outside of the classroom walls. Technology brings significant and frustrating obstacles to student learning. The range includes infrastructure issues like wireless connectivity, printing difficulties, projector failures, student behavioral challenges, and helping parents navigate the home environment with mobile technology. Teacher training [...] The post The Strategic Imperative for Schools: Technology as Connector appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Badges have garnered great interest among scholars of digital media and learning. In addition, widespread initiatives such as Mozilla’s Open Badge Framework expand the potential of badging into the realm of open education. In this paper, we explicate the concept of open badges. We highlight some of the ways that researchers have examined badges as [...] The post Open badges for education: what are the implications at the intersection of open systems and badging? appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Syncing the content of different management tools and features is one of the efficiencies that technology advancements bring and the Joomla Moodle integration is a perfect example. There are various ways in which integration can be achieved, although the most common involves a third party feature. Integration basically deals with creating an interface shared by [...] The post Joomla Moodle Integration Guide - Super Moodle appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Some higher ed institutions are experimenting with digital badges as a way to encourage and document learning among faculty and staff. Badges are quickly becoming acceptable currency in the world of higher education. Purdue University, for example, known for developing and commercializing innovative applications such as Course Signals, has embraced badges with another Purdue Studio project: Passport, a system for [...] The post Badges: A New Measure of Professional Development appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The use of Tin Can and Open Badges for learning from Epic Epic’s Head of Platforms Mark Aberdour presents ‘The use of Tin Can and Open Badges for learning’ to a packed seminar at Learning Technologies Summer Forum. Source: www.slideshare.net See on Scoop.it - 21st Century Assessment The post The use of Tin Can and Open Badges for learning appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

We see, then, that in 2015, we still have to ask "What’s it All About?"  The answer to that, I believe, will differ depending on the context.  Is it only one more teaching practice?  Or do eportfolios have significance not only in but also beyond classroom practices? If we look at the various contexts in [...] The post Defining "ePortfolio": Four Ways of Seeing an ePortfolio - AAEEBL appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Teaching elementary students to code begins with connecting to resources, looking beyond 1:1, trusting kids to learn, involving the school community, and making it fun.    There are many reasons for this. As you well know, teachers are already stretched pretty thin, and often it seems like there’s just no bandwidth to add something new [...] The post Add Coding to Your Elementary Curriculum. . . Right Now appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

It’s useful to analyze which purposes of student data collection are primary, for which permission is expected and implied when data is collected. Some "primary use" categories are obvious. In order for schools to function, they need basic information about students and parents. They need to record grades, know who is eligible for subsidized lunch, [...] The post Why Opting Out of Student Data Collection Isn’t the Solution appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Blended Learning is one of the major learning concepts that came about as a direct result of the impact of technology integration in education.In blended learning students and teachers get to experiment with a multimodal teaching method in which the digital and virtual learning is blended with the face-to-face one. However, one of the misconceptions [...] The post Blended Learning Visually Explained for Teachers appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The 3.4 release introduces new features into the CMS such as improved front end module editing, decoupling of weblinks, composer integration, Google new reCaptcha and security improvements by implementing UploadShield code which can detect most malicious uploads by examining their filenames and file contents. Please note: Due to technical reasons we have had to disable [...] The post Joomla! 3.4.1 Released appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The increasing number of digitally literate students, with constant access to the internet via their own handheld devices, can cause problems for lecturers - but they also offer scholars the opportunity to undertake new and exciting research methods. This is according to Christopher Jones, professor of research in educational technology at Liverpool John Moores University, [...] The post Digital literacy: the perks and pitfalls of plugged-in students appeared first on Patric Lougheed.