November 24th, 2011 by Rhodri Thomas
Having completed a talk on a range of mobile-related topics and work delivered, underway or in the proposal stages at the OU – for the IET Technology Coffee Morning series – here’s a slightly amended replay to incorporate demos and...
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November 4th, 2011 by Rhodri Thomas
In the last 4 posts, I have given an overview of new features and enhancements along with some rationale as part of the move from mobile-optimising Moodle 1.9 to 2.1 at the OU. There are a select number of modules that have now migrated to OU VLE2...
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November 1st, 2011 by Rhodri Thomas
In line with the OU push to implement more of the curriculum narrative, scaffolding, signposting and activities online – rather than solely relying on a mixed blend of physical artefacts – the central study planner is a key route through...
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August 9th, 2010 by Rhodri Thomas
Since I started this latest series of blog articles with reference to the student survey that gave us the indicators for priority areas for development, I’ll wrap up by going back to this (originally referred to in the student rating blog...
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August 5th, 2010 by Rhodri Thomas
In addition to the previously optimised Resource Pages, Structured Content is the primary means of managing and creating content to be rendered onto course/module websites, as well as ‘alternative formats’ that are increasingly available...
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