Today, after four months of preparation, CLT finally launched Chichester’s e-Learning Benchmarking Project. We are one of twenty-five universities taking part in Phase II of this national exercise which is coordinated by HEA and JISC. The aim of the exercise is to look at e-learning while asking three questions:
where we are now?
where would [...]
I’ve been picking up several references pointing to a recent Moodle conference in Graz, Austria. Graz seems to be a hive of industry at the moment, with the Technical Institute being once of the first universities to adopt Elgg. The conference had several interesting presentations, including one by Martin Dougiamas (the [...]
At last we have a copy of Elgg installed on a trial server. After encountering it at an e-Learning Benchmarking meeting and observing it being enthusiastically adopted by students at Brighton and Leeds, we’ve set it up to see how useful it might be in supporting learning.
As a piece of social networking software, Elgg [...]
Back in May I referred to the potential fog that surrounds all things Web 2.0. For those who equate learning software with just a few software applications, perhaps WebCT/Blackboard, QuestionMark Perception, MS Office and a good web browser, it can come as a shock that there are now so many Web 2.0 applications [...]
