"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change." - Carl Rodgers The aforementioned quote rightly suffices the problem arising in prevalent education system. We have been cultivating ourselves since the early 19th century to use the ever changing and advancing technology. We have witnessed a revolution [...] The post Top 4 Benefits of Using Moodle for your School - Why it Works as a Platform for Student-Teacher Interaction appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

With the Mozilla Open Badge project and any number of recent initiatives, the idea of using badges for documenting learning continues to gain interest and traction in the field of education.  What is a digital badge?  Think of a digital equivalent of boy scout badges. A badge is granted when a scout demonstrates a given skill. [...] The post Digital Badges for Learning appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

  Studies of the effectiveness of video in formal learning environments have yielded some confusing ideas, namely that content acquired via video consumption doesn’t easily transfer to the medium of text (Fisch 2002; Koran, Snow & McDonald 1971). This doesn’t mean students aren’t learning from the video (or the text for that matter), but it rather suggests [...] The post 40 Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Introducing Moodle VR Source: www.youtube.com Happy April 1st Everyone! See on Scoop.it - Moodlicious The post Introducing Moodle VR appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Institutions of higher education aggregate and warehouse many terabytes of student data, aiding routine functions including degree conferral, financial aid eligibility, online course management, and more. In recent years, scholars of teaching and learning have begun exploring new ways to utilize these "big data" resources, extracting information that might directly contribute to the institution’s educational [...] The post Know Thy Students: Providing Aggregate Student Data to Instructors appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Joomla 3.4 has thus brought many improvements by introducing new features, offering various benefits to users as well as developers. Other than these, there are many undiscovered benefits too, which you will come across while using this new version. Source: blog.semaphore-software.com See on Scoop.it - Just Joomla! The post The New Joomla 3.4 has Come Out with Some Noteworthy Features!! appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

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For many years, Moodle system has been the most preferred learning system for most learners, administrators, educators and institutions. It’s well customized designs makes it a great choice for making educational courses and settings. If you are new to Moodle systems, it’s good to learn the architectural design of this powerful web application. Moodle comprises [...] The post Extensive Moodle System Architecture Overview appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The new IT architecture also requires that tools be able to "work together" to provide better information (analytics) to both faculty and students on their progress and to administrators on their usage. This may mean that data provided by apps is easily made available to an analysis service or even that one tool provides information [...] The post A New Architecture for Learning appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

IT’S OPEN! IT’S FREE! IT’S ONLINE! IT’S READY! For the last two weeks I have been frantically re-editing my online open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age.’ I am relieved and pleased to announce that the book is now finished - or at least as finished as an open online textbook will be, as it’s possible, [...] The post Open Textbook ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ now ready and available | Tony Bates appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

In moving Humboldt Elementary to a more data-driven model, one of the first challenges that former principal Cole Young faced was figuring out how to use the data, how to share it, and how to get everyone on the same page with the numbers. The school didn’t have a culture of data, and creating one [...] The post Making Student Data Part of the Conversation appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

In data mining and data analytics, tools and techniques once confined to research laboratories are being adopted by forward-looking industries to improve decision making. Higher education institutions are beginning to use analytics for improving the services they provide and for increasing student grades and retention. The U.S. Department of Education’s National Education Technology Plan, as [...] The post Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Capterra surveys over 100 Learning Management System users to uncover how they find, purchase, and use their LMS software.   The most popular LMSs among respondents track very well with our previously published research on the subject. Moodle was far-and-away the most used, with SumTotal/Skillsoft a close second, and Blackboard and Cornerstone vying for third. Source: www.capterra.com See [...] The post LMS Industry User Research | Capterra appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

What do we associate with "eportfolio"?  Deep learning, engaged learning, integrative learning, reflective thinking, metacognition and other cognitive attributes.  But also we associate "eportfolio" with identity and personal development.  Personal development can apply to learning while enrolled in a program of formal study, or it can apply to personal development in a career.  We also [...] The post Ontology of "ePortfolio" appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The Assurance of Learning for Graduate Employability framework is a quality assurance model for curriculum enhancement for graduate employability, enabling graduates to achieve "the skills, understandings and personal attributes that make [them] more likely to secure employment and be successful in their chosen occupations to the benefit of themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy" (Yorke, [...] The post Designing an e-portfolio for assurance of learning focusing on adoptability and learning analytics appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Many teachers have long been frustrated with static, canned curriculum that doesn’t seem connected to kids’ lives, and testing requirements that drive the learning experience. So they, often in partnership with daring leaders, are pushing back, trying to find ways to meet the long-held goal of educators: Meeting each student’s needs and helping all to [...] The post What Does a School Need to Enable Learning Based on Student Competency? appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Working on the taxonomy of digital badges / open badges is an interesting empirical and conceptual endeavour. I have been looking into different types of badges as part of the "Discussion Paper on Open Badges and Quality Assurance" on which I have been recently working in context of the European Project "Badge Europe" (Erasmus+, Strategic Partnership). Before the [...] The post Digital Badges / Open Badges Taxonomy appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The emergence of open online learning courses brings in to sharp relief the viability of existing forms of teacher provided formative and summative assessment. For such courses that carry no charge for participation alternative structures for engaging, motivating and sustaining study need to be sought. Badges or similar such visual public symbols that communicate to [...] The post Badges for Learning: a review of the formative role of badges in two open online courses appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

I once again found myself in an Open Badges session with the good people from DigitalMe today. It was a very positive event overall and some exciting stuff will happen as a result. Attendees were given a chance to express the things that made them excited about Open Badges in their organisation. They were also given the opportunity to air their [...] The post The three biggest (perceived) problems with Open Badges | Doug Belshaw’s blog appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

An Open Badge is a digital representation of a skill or achievement earned from a creditable organization. This session presents a framework for how school districts can leverage open badges to encourage and reward professional growth through non-traditional means. Earned badges can be displayed in professional portfolios, Linkedin profiles, and various social networks like Facebook [...] The post Open Badges in Professional Development: A Framework appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

MS thinks that CBE and Badges are probably going to become intertwined as both progress into the future. CBE, at its most broad interpretation, is about relaying information about what a person is capable of doing, ideally including evidence. The current Mozilla Open Badges specification is, in our opinion, the best work so far in [...] The post IMS Global getting into Badges! appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

As it stands, diplomas represent degree completion and achievement, while transcripts provide a deeper level of detail as to how someone earned their degree. However, transcripts are more focused on student mobility within or between schools, and do not show a complete stock of experience gained. In fact, 46 percent of learners polled feel that [...] The post Students want better digital credentials appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Debates over children and media use are nothing new, but the technologies by which children primarily interact with media have changed significantly. Most guidelines related to "screen time" were developed when television was the dominant media, but new technologies are making us question the value of older research. In its most recent report on the [...] The post Empowering Student Relationships With Media appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

My recent update of my eportfolio site, Folioz, went without a hitch and the Mahara update brings many new improvements. The ability to choose/upload images from the editor is long overdue and has always been a glaring limitation of the TinyMCE editor. A new annotation block allows for feedback in any context. Only time will tell [...] The post Mahara 15.04 update brings improved functionality appeared first on Patric Lougheed.