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Collaborative Editing and the Power of Bad Examples

2nd February 20233rd February 2023 Robin Turner 1 Comment Collaboration, editing, writing

When I was a teenage chess fanatic, the most useful book I read was called How Not to Play Chess.

Moodle Pedagogy

Giving access to high-quality educational experiences with Moodle

28th January 202325th January 2023 Eduardo Lina 2 Comments

There are many ways by which Moodle shows that it is committed to giving access to high-quality educational experiences. One

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Simple complexity

16th October 202210th October 2022 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment API, Backup, Experience, Grid, Moodle, Plugins, Software Configuration Management, Software constuction, Software Development, Software Engineering

Sometimes you have to write something based upon your experience and not so much on existing research. Whilst in the small hours of the morning your mind wanders and you start to think about things.

Moodle Pedagogy

Enhance K-12 English Foreign Language Skills with Moodle

28th September 202228th September 2022 Eduardo Lina 0 Comments

This post (like a Smore Newsletter I will share) aims at giving teachers of English as Foreign Language confidence in

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Feedback Methods Compared — Candidate 2: Grademark

2nd September 202216th August 2022 Robin Turner 2 Comments Assignment feedback, Feedback, Software, writing

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Infinite Monkey’s

16th August 202211th August 2022 Gareth Barnard 3 Comments Assessment, Cheat, Cheating, Copy Paste, copyright, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Forgery, GPLv3, Monkey's, Moodle, Open source, Plagiarism, Shakespeare, Skill, Skills, Software constuction, Software Development, Software Engineering, Style, Teaching

There is a saying that I know of along the lines that given enough time then a group monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. This then lead to a thought on if it actually happened then would it be a copyright infringement? Probably not given the time that has transpired, but then consider if instead of it being a random act, then what if the monkeys had just copied the text by learning how to use the keys Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V effectively? Then how could we tell the difference? With that thought in mind, then how can assessors of work on an online eLearning platform then detect plagiarism?

Moodle Pedagogy

Practical Problem Based Learning (PPBL) with Moodle

28th April 202223rd April 2022 Eduardo Lina 0 Comments

There are many reasons why teachers of English as a Foreign Language should use different teaching methods so as to

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Development

16th October 202110th October 2021 Gareth Barnard 0 Comments Challenge, development, Experience, learning, Problem solving, Skill, Skills, Software Development

What exactly is ‘Development’? In this post I’ll describe what it means to me within the context of ‘Software Engineering’.

LMS Jubilee Class No 45690 Leander on the Royal Duchy at Powderham, Devon, England 29th August 2021

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Downtime

16th September 20215th September 2021 Gareth Barnard 1 Comment Downtime, Facilitating learning, Gamification, learning, Maslow, PGCE, Relaxation

When I did my PGCE I learnt about ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’, whereby there is a ‘pyramid’ that defines the elements in life that help support the needs above them. One of the needs at the top is ‘Self-actualisation’, which I understand to be a need state that is best for learning and indeed being productive. In this post I’ll discuss my thoughts on this.