The Tin Can Launch plugin for Moodle(https://github.com/garemoko/moodle-mo...) allows you to launch Tin Can content and track that content to an external LRS configured in Moodle. The plugin then pulls data from the LRS back into Moodle to feed Moodle’s completion tracking and give the learner that little green tick! This short video gives an overview [...] The post Moodle Tin Can Launch Plugin appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Being digitally literate is not just about knowing how to use programs or being aware of copyright law. It’s also about being able to ask the right questions. This is another reason to have a news section in your Computing lessons, in addition to the 5 reasons to have a Computing news section of your [...] The post Digital literacy is about asking the right questions appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

According to the Office of Research Consumer Guide, portfolios are "a collection of student work representing a selection of performance." While artists have kept them for hundreds of years, portfolios emerged in modern education (PDF) from college writing courses in the 1980s. Electronic portfolios are online versions of this tool. If done well, portfolios can [...] The post 11 Essentials for Excellent ePortfolios appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

  I am very excited to see v0.9.0 released even though I have been running and testing it for many months now. Now that it supports running on current versions of Ubuntu and has an HTML5 client in the works this has developed into a powerful teaching resource. It even claims to be able to support [...] The post Open Source web conferencing software BigBlueButton v0.9.0 released! appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Methods of documenting the knowledge and skills of students and employees could change dramatically over the next 10 years, according to a new report from KnowledgeWorks, a nonprofit organization that works with schools and communities to foster personalized learning. The report, "Certifying Skills and Knowledge: Four Scenarios on the Future of Credentials," examines trends in [...] The post Report: 4 Scenarios for Future Credentialing Systems appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global/IMS), the world leader in EdTech interoperability and impact, announces the formation of the Executive Board on Assessment (EBA). The EBA’s mission is to set industry direction for years to come and to accelerate the transition to e-assessment by building on the success of the QTI®v2 (Question & Test Interoperability® [...] The post IMS Global Announces Initiative to Create a Highly Interoperable Assessment Ecosystem to Accelerate Transition to e-Assessment appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

    In the infographic, Blended and Online Assessment Taxonomy, we have organized types of activities that suit various levels of assessments (2001) starting with remember, understand, and apply in the first row. Assessment activities like matching, multiple choice, and word problems fall among these lower levels of learning. Grading and feedback criteria for these [...] The post Blended and Online Assessment Taxonomy Design appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global / IMS) today announced the formation of a new initiative aimed at communicating the benefits and availability of open interoperability to school leaders.  Incorporation of IMS standards at leading school districts such as Gwinnett County, Georgia, Houston Independent School District, Texas, and Orange County, Florida have significantly improved the […] The post IMS Global Announces K-12 Open EdTech Ecosystem Initiative appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Quiz is one of the most popular - and powerful activities in Moodle. Alongside its many standard features, there are over 80 Quiz plugins allowing you to customise it to your needs.  1. Word your questions wisely: The challenge from … Continue reading → Source: moodle.com See on Scoop.it - Moodlicious The post 12 Easy to Follow Tips for Moodle Quiz Creation appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Source: www.youtube.com Moodle 2.9 features a user-friendly redesign of the user-interface for the benefit of teachers, students and new Moodle users to create engaging learning environments. With improvements to the functionality, UI, course editing and lessons, this release is our best to date. Familiar features are reintroduced with updated titles for the common simplicity of […] The post Moodle 2.9 Release Highlights: Overview appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Gantry 5 is a complete, ground-up rewrite of the Gantry framework. Taking advantage of the latest Web technologies, Gantry 5 is built for the needs of tomorrow’s websites, today. We wanted to create a framework that benefited from years of user feedback we received from Gantry 1-4. By opening up our development process to the […] The post Gantry 5 RC1 Released appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Learning analytics provide institutions with opportunities to support student progression and to enable personalised, rich learning. With the increased availability of large datasets, powerful analytics engines, and skilfully designed visualisations of analytics results, institutions may be able to use the experience of the past to create supportive, insightful models of primary (and perhaps real-time) learning […] The post Learning Analytics: The good, the bad, or perhaps ugly? appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Across the globe, higher ed institutions and professional organizations are harnessing the power of digital badges to motivate, demonstrate, and validate learning and development (L&D). Digital badges are currently in use at postsecondary institutions such as MIT and Yale University and organizations such as NASA, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Smithsonian.   Our […] The post Are Digital Badges a New Measurement of Mastery? appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

One important aspect of eportfolio that is often overlooked and rarely used well is showing change over time.  An eportfolio can produce a website to showcase work, but it can also show the changes behind the work. Sometimes, people want to see what kind of learner you are.  It’s important to show your own learning […] The post First I Discovered Fire and then I Discovered ePortfolios appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Micro-learning involves the reorganizing of training programs into several short courses instead of one large course.   In some respects, instructional designers have already been doing this for years through "chunking" of course content. Micro-learning is similar but often includes smaller (micro) segments.   There are a variety of reasons why demand has increased for […] The post Micro-Learning’s Meteoric Rise appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

In today’s society, visual representation of information is highly valued. Images present a significant amount of information in a faster time. We created information literacy digital badge infographics to visually convey the cognitive processes embedded in the badge steps. This page is intended to show these infographics.   Bloom’s Taxonomy   Bloom’s Taxonomy is frequently […] The post Information Literacy Digital Badges Mapped to Bloom’s Taxonomy appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Presentation by Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) at Mahara Hui in Auckland, New Zealand, on 9 April 2015. Scaffolding ePortfolio use from Kristina D.C. Hoeppner   Slides are available at http://slides.com/anitsirk/scaffoldin… and http://www.slideshare.net/4nitsirk/sc… (download) Licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 The post Scaffolding ePortfolio use appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

While the competency-base system measures learning and progression very differently from traditional models based on time, classrooms at Sanborn don’t look as different as one might think. A lot of instruction is project-based because teachers are no longer trying to get students to warehouse knowledge — they want them to learn how to think critically […] The post Step By Step, the Journey Towards Freedom From Grade Levels appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Digital literacies and digital game-based learning (DGBL) are both concepts that have emerged in the educational arena since digital technologies have become all pervasive in every aspect of society. With mobile technologies continuing to develop, games are being used more and more by people of all generations and schools are realising that there is some […] The post Digital game-based learning levels up digital literacies appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

Today, CompetencyWorks released Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders. It is a comprehensive look at how districts across the country from Alaska to Maine have been transforming their districts from the time-based system to one that puts students and their learning in the center of all decisions. The paper is based […] The post Implementing Competency Education in K-12 Systems: Insights from Local Leaders appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

In graduate school, I serendipitously learned about ePortfolios and everything came unstuck. I realized that ePortfolios - if designed and implemented in an intentional, integrative way - could be the glue I was imagining. I also started to understand the complexity of ePortfolios, which I gradually recognized can be both an asset and a limitation. […] The post Exploring the "E" in ePortfolio appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

It is about better suiting the needs of the modern learner - who is mobile, flexible, uses different content sources and tools, multiple devices, needs content ‘in the workflow’ and on-demand. Traditional corporate learning usually means one central formal source for staff to access learning resources - the LMS. But in reality, the modern learner […] The post Quick insights into xAPI for Learning and Development appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

A Google search for ‘improving student experience’ brings up around 30,000 hits. When I did one recently, the front page showed items in scholarly journals and national news media, on Jisc’s own website and on those of several UK universities. This is a subject that really matters, especially as competition for students becomes more and […] The post Ten tips for safe and effective learning analytics appeared first on Patric Lougheed.

The last code update (15.01) I applied to my Mahara eportfolio site (folioz.ca) I noticed a new annotation block and wondered what the function was. It seemed devoid of a context and duplicated the function of the feedback block, so I started digging around to learn more. Reading through the change log and the tracker website […] The post The Evolution of SmartEvidence in Mahara appeared first on Patric Lougheed.