Hello Everyone! Now that we have been through (almost) a full academic year in Moodle 3.1, it is time for our first incremental upgrade of the new system. When we first installed last summer, we chose Moodle 3.1 as it was the most recent stable release, even though Moodle was currently on v3.3. This summer, […]
As a follow up to my post from a few weeks ago, we have access to a shiny new installation of Moodle 3.1. By ‘we’, I mean ‘me, MarComm, and IT’, but that is a small detail which will be remedied shortly. MarComm is working to make Moodle look great and easy to use, and […]
I’m currently on a short retreat/vacation with my wife (or I was when I wrote this) and had the opportunity to get out and about for a walk in the woods. Being the end of March, the spring thaw is in full stride and so the sights and sounds of…
There are numerous ways to get higher ed faculty riled up, and talking about plagiarism or intellectual property are two of them. And for good reason. Plagiarism is a significant problem in higher ed (although there are many faculty who can’t …
The more I dig into Gitbook and Github as a platform for online course design and delivery, the more I think that it is going to be a great way to reduce the hassle of typical course design projects that rely on MS Word files emailed back and forth and to and fro.
What is WordPress? WordPress is best known as a blogging platform that provides a free and easy way for users to run their own website. But it is far more powerful than that. WordPress is a complete content management system (CMS) that is the platform for 25% of all websites on the web. Because WordPress […]
Ubuntu–a person is a person through other persons. While Moodle will almost certainly play a role in the TWU Digital Learning Commons, I don’t believe that it can get us to where we want to be in offering transformative learning experiences to our distant students. It is necessary (perhaps…for now), but not sufficient. As I […]
TWU’s online presence has been a long time coming, but, here we go! Since arriving on campus in August, taking some time to listen to people talk about learning at TWU and what that entails, and thinking about how best to move us from where we are, to establishing a genuinely ‘TWU’ presence in online […]
TWU has a long history of success in providing highly engaging and effective higher education experiences for students, primarily in a residential, face-to-face learning environment. The idea of TWU as a learning community runs very deep. However, as we enter a New Era for TWU, there are pressures from within and without to take the […]
