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Why do so many Moodle courses suck?

Nik Peachey

Moodle is a magnificent free product and has the potential to enable schools and teachers to build wonderfully unique interactive online learning courses in which learner interaction can be tracked, measured and responded to. Given the state of many of these courses, it’s no wonder that drop out rates for online learning are so high.

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10 Tech Tools for Teacher Training Courses

Nik Peachey

So as they were building examples of online learning they were also creating their own e-portfolio. Here's an example of a document uploaded to Posterous: Example You can download Jing free from here Wiggio Wiggio Towards the end of the course I introduced the Wiggio VLE to the teachers.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with 'e's

These were mostly mature and part-time students who held substantive posts in training agencies, colleges and universities, and in community adult education centres, the military, National Health Service , the police force and the prison service. One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’.

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Learning technology teacher development blog: Online Video: For Language Development

Nik Peachey

Im a learning technology consultant, writer and teacher trainer. I specialise in writing computer based learning materials for language development and teacher training. I also offer a range of web related consultancy services for e-learning and e-marketing. learning. (2). mobile learning. (5). Nik Peachey.

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Microsoft's free Learning Content Development System

Nik Peachey

If like me you've never had the patience (or the time and money) to really master a tool like Flash, but like the idea of creating interactive materials that can run online (SCORM compliant to run in an LMS), then this could be a handy tool for you.