Michael Feldstein sobre Instructure y su entorno virtual de enseñanza/aprendizaje Canvas, que pronto será open source.

Un web que se propone lanzar un debate en el Reino Unido: "¿Cuál es el propósito de la educación?". Entre otras acciones, se anima a la gente a responder a la pregunta escribiendo artículos de 500 palabras en sus propios blogs.

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We’re going to spark a debate.

Con el Moodle 2.0 acabado de estrenar, ya tenemos una página en el wiki de documentación docs.moodle.org donde compartir ideas para la versión 3.0 (que ni siquiera está aún en el roadmap).

This page is a brainstorm about a complete rewrite/refactor for Moodle 3.0.

Please add your ideas! They don't need to be consistent yet, just make sure your ideas are here to be boiled down later on.

Think Big!

Ali Ozgur, developer for the mTouch software alerted us yesterday that mTouch (for iPod, iPhone and Android), mTouch+ (for iPad) and mTouchU (all devices) are now able to connect users to Moodle 2.0 sites.
In addition, Ali and his team have been working to add additional functionality (some of which is pretty slick) to bring more utility and power to Moodle on a handheld.  A few of the new features and improvements include:

 Moodle News se hace eco de MBot, nueva aplicación para trabajar con Moodle mediante un teléfono móvil Android.

• quick logins
• posts the newest information available to you
• adds classmate contact information to your Google contacts (optional)
• formats Moodle pages cleanly

Lorna M. Campbell (Assistant Director, CETIS) recoge y resume en su blog la polémica acerca del programa de becas del gobierno de los EUA para la creación de recursos educativos abiertos, que exige el uso del formato SCORM.

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Last week’s announcement that the US Department of Labour is planning to allocate $2 billion in grant funds to the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training grants programme over the next four years, has already generated a huge response online. $2 billion is a lot of money #inthiscurrentclimate, or indeed in any climate, however the reason that this announcement has generated so much heat is that it has been billed as $2 billion for open educational resources and furthermore it mandates the use of SCORM. Although there has been almost universal approval that the TAACCCT call mandates the use of the CC-By license the inclusion of the SCORM mandate has stirred up a bit of a hornets nest.

Mahara ha actualizado su sitio de demostración con cuentas y contenidos predefinidos, de manera que ahora es mucho más fácil y rápido probar la plataforma (no hace falta crearse una cuenta de usuario). Hay cuentas de estudiante, tutor y administrador, que se reinician todos los días.