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I attended the Moodle Moot at Waiariki Polytechnic from 3 to 4 February. This provided really valuable insights into the status of various TEC-funded projects which have incorporated this open source platform. For me, it’s been gratifying to see how Moodle has moved on from being something of a fringe player two years ago: it’s [...]

From 9 to 10 December I attended the Australian Flexible Learning Leaders Sharing Workshop at Coogee Beach, Sydney. For me this was very valuable: not just the content of the presentations but the whole approach to presentation and reporting back on their projects. Many of the leaders used narrative techniques such as metaphor to tell [...]

In the last two weeks I’ve participated in:
A face to face presentation by Alan Levine at Unitec on Connecting Learning Objects with RSS but which in fact was re-titled on the day to PhotoBlogging: Publish and Build Communities Around Digital Images. So it wasn’t quite what I had expected but useful: I was [...]

I’ve just returned from a workshop at Unitec on Digital Storytelling by Alan Levine. I’ve used storytelling in courses for teachers that I have facilitated, so this was a high-interest topic for me. Alan’s institution runs a one-week workshop on digital storytelling.
I was pleased that the session was focussed on the stories themselves, not the [...]

I’ve been attending the e-fest conference here in Wellington. My overall impression is that the eLearning field in NZ has now matured to the stage where there is an increasingly shared body of knowledge. I’m sure the governmen’s initiatives in this area have really helped in this regard. I enjoyed the exposure to some conceptual [...]

On 7 October I attended a presentation at AUT by Debbie Soccio, one of the Australian FLLs who is currently in New Zealand – she’ll be attending e-fest from 11 – 12 October. Debbie is with Victoria University in Melbourne and discussed and demonstrated a number of online resources. Several of the sites shown were [...]

From 14 to 16 September I attended the NZ Association of Private Education providers’ conference at Te Papa in Wellington. In collaboration with my QED colleague Doug Haynes, I presented two workshops. One of these was entitled Determining the Quality of E-Learning Programmes and reflected our ‘work in progress’ in this area. It was [...]

I have just completed my involvement in a research review which was carried out by the University of Oklahoma. The project involved the development of a set of criteria for evaluating learning management systems. The process was an interesting one as it took place over 3 weeks and involved an expert panel. Each week, as [...]