Moodle

Staying on top of updates... 

If you are into Moodle you may find time to watch a few clips.

At time of this post: Moodle is at version 4.2. See their YouTube clip on updates here or

Moodle New Features May 2023. Including information on the following:

Course page improvements

• Admin setting to control indentation in courses
• Duplicate course sections
• Permalink for easy linking to sections
• Add activities anywhere
• Activity names displayed only in edit mode
• Text and media areas display in the Course index

Bulk course activity editing

• Bulk actions on sections and activities:
• Duplicate
• Delete
• Move
• Change availability

Gradebook enhancements

• Grader report search
• Collapsible columns in Grader report
• View full feedback directly on the Grader report screen
• Collapsible categories in teh Gradeboolk setup
• A new status column displaying hidden and locked icons

Report builder 4.2 / Report builder enhancements

• Comments and user badges as report sources
• Course overview files in course custom reports
• 'Before', last, current and next hour filters
• Time enrolled, started and reaggregated options for course completion

With 44 minutes up your sleeve you may like to watch the April 28 clip from the Moodle Academy.  Education Manager Mary Cooch and co talk through changes for Moodle site admin and, if you're an educator, courses. Here

If you're not into Moodle then here are some sketches...

old sketchbook pennings

Learning Design Principles

Pearson’s Learning Design Principles (2016) Blog post David Porcaro | December 13, 2016

Instructional Design Tips: YouTube clip: Design Principles for designing better learning content (Mayers 12 Principles) with Emmett Cullinane (2023)

Merril's 

other links: 5 Instructional Design Principles

LMS

I'll be adding to this post as I start to draft an overview of the LMS that I am looking at

Technology enhanced learning (TEL) framework:

 https://le.unimelb.edu.au/learning-teaching-assessment/getting-started/technology-enhanced-learning-framework From the Uni of Melbourne site.

Came across a company that utilises this: World-manager. I just didn't realise how many varieties of LMS and specific Learning Design software are being used. I know mostly Canvas, Moodle and other tools like Articulate 360 and H5p.  
World-manager
What is World Manager? World Manager's Training and Development tools include everything companies need to manage employee training compliance from anywhere in the world. The suite of products includes all-inclusive e-learning tools, scenario-based training, policy sign-offs, achievement awards, employee appraisals, and exit interviews.

They also use this:
Preparing graphics for https://www.elearningworld.org/preparing-graphics-for-e-learning-gimp/

I'll add more as I research more. I need to spend some time on the Instructure site.

Comic set in Edinburgh - autobio - I'm buying something on Victoria Street