History Archives - ElearningWorld.org https://www.elearningworld.org/tag/history/ For the online learning world Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:36:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.elearningworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/cropped-miriam_elearningworld_512x512.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 History Archives - ElearningWorld.org https://www.elearningworld.org/tag/history/ 32 32 129348307 What is a developer? https://www.elearningworld.org/what-is-a-developer/ https://www.elearningworld.org/what-is-a-developer/#comments Thu, 15 Aug 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.elearningworld.org/?p=18920 In our world these days we interact with advanced machines, machines that are the result of centuries of human tool development. They are complex and require careful configuration to ensure that they operate in the way we intend them to do so. There are many ‘configurations’ with varying levels of complexity. Take the software that runs on the machine, that is a ‘configuration’ that is instructions that tell the machine what to do, and yet that has a ‘configuration’ too, a set of values associated with the particular operational functionality of the software, the settings. Hopefully that configuration you can manage yourself from the information provided to you by the developer (or via a technical writer) on what each setting does. But what of the actual software? How is this created? What is this mysterious person ‘The Developer’?

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]]> https://www.elearningworld.org/what-is-a-developer/feed/ 2 18920 Why I believe in Moodle https://www.elearningworld.org/why-i-believe-in-moodle/ https://www.elearningworld.org/why-i-believe-in-moodle/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000 https://www.elearningworld.org/?p=14476 I have been using and writing code for Moodle since version 1.8, producing the first version of Collapsed Topics for 1.9. This is now over fourteen years ago and yet I still believe in Moodle. In this post I’ll say a few words about why this is the case.

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]]> https://www.elearningworld.org/whats-in-a-setting/feed/ 0 2769 Most Awesome https://www.elearningworld.org/most-awesome/ https://www.elearningworld.org/most-awesome/#comments Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:01:13 +0000 http://www.elearningworld.org/?p=2188 Introduction When the Bootstrap theme was initially introduced into Moodle by Bas Brands and David Scotson (moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=theme_bootstrap the earliest being

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