learning technology

Moodling around in Edinburgh

January 28, 2021 / learning technology, lms, mobile, moodle, open source
Reading Time: 9 minutes

It was great to be at the UK MoodleMoot in Edinburgh this week. It has become an annual highlight for me as a place to meet old and new friends alike, to share some of the things we’ve been working on and to learn from the vast experiences of the Moodle community around the UK and wider afield. The event ran over four days but myself and Andrew Downes went up for the two conference days, along with a whopping 400 delegates from 29 countries.

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Top ten learning platform trends from 2013

January 28, 2021 / data, learning technology, lms, mobile, moodle, tincan
Reading Time: 6 minutes

The end of the calendar year is a great opportunity to reflect and take stock of some of the key trends in the learning platforms market that have stood out for me and the team at Epic over the past 12 months. Do these reflect your own views of the market? What was big for you last year? Let me know in the comments, it would be great to share thoughts and notes on what was a fast moving year!

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The art of writing LMS requirements

January 28, 2021 / learning technology, lms, moodle
Reading Time: 3 minutes

I saw a really well constructed Request for Proposal this week. It was about 10 pages long and listed a set of business requirements and a set of technical requirements for an LMS, without being overly prescriptive about the specifics of how the system should operate. I work on responses to a lot of these and was nice to see one that was so well written.

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