Author Archives: Gavin Henrick

6 weeks to go until Moodlemoot Dublin 2013

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Gavin Henrick

In only 6 short weeks Dublin, Ireland will again play home to the Moodlemoot. Hundreds of Moodlers from Ireland, the UK and further afield will gather together in the Crowne Plaza Hotel Northwood for 4 days of relentless networking which … Continue reading →

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More thoughts on MOOCs

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

So in my last post I looked at what I saw that made up a MOOC, the content, the assessment, discussion, assignment and a bit about the platform and my experience on a MOOC. This post is going to explore … Continue reading →

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Some random thoughts on MOOCs

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

Over the last few years we have seen Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) go from few in number to now there are a good number of them out there, with the most recent announcement of  Futurelearn promising even more. What … Continue reading →

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Top Plugin downloads for the last 12 months (2012)

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

Moodle.org recently added stats reports for plugins – an example of which is the Questionnaire Module Stats Page. It certainly has shown up some interesting information. As you can see, it includes the following graphs: Downloads by month in the … Continue reading →

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Command Line Moodle – MOOSH

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

Over the years I have seen a number of individual command line tools working with Moodle, providing non-web access to Moodle features to the server admin, however this plugin brings a suite of features into the open which should make … Continue reading →

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New Version of Moodle available – Moodle 2.4

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Gavin Henrick

The long-awaited Moodle 2.4 is here! The latest version of Moodle 2 has been released. It has been just over two years since Moodle 2.0 was released and Moodle HQ has maintained the new released schedule of every 6 months … Continue reading →

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