Activity Chooser in Moodle (Video)

In the below video you can see an introduction to the activity chooser and how to add activities in Moodle...

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Course Reports in Moodle (Video)

Do you have a course in Moodle and want to know how many student are looking at it and what are they doing in it?

Just go to ‘Reports’ under from the administration menu.

Please watch the below video for more information.

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Upload files faster to your courses in Moodle: Drag and Drop (Video)

The below video demonstrate how to upload files to your courses using the drag and drop method (no need to add a file activity).

I highly recommend  you to send these video to the teachers in your institution/company as even people who have been using Moodle for a long time do not know this method and it can save a lot of time.

They will be surprised as to how fast this method is.

Canvas Network: free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

Canvas Network offers open, online courses taught by from colleges, universities, and organizations everywhere in the world.

You can access the site and search for courses without any sign up but when wanting to enroll in any course you will be asked for your email and a password.

There are a lot free MOOCs and, as the main deliverers are universities, there are a lot of courses dealing with learning and teaching which is a good new for you if you are in this sector.

I think that in a time when MOOCs are everywhere it´s a very good idea to create a website that bring all of them together.

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Influence of public funding in Higher Education in the E-learning sector in Europe

The 'Higher Education in Ireland' is facing a rising in student numbers and dwindling resources since the crash in 2008. As the below table shows, it seems that the Higher Education in Ireland is suffering more than Higher Education in other European countries affected by the economic crash.



I am wondering about the impact of the above situation in the e-learning sector in Higher Education in Ireland and the EU. I think that all the Institutes of Technology and Universities in Europe have a LMS (Learning Management System) to support their face to face classes or even to deliver full masters and degrees online, but i doubt that all of them have a professional that can properly administrate that system.

From my point of view, this situation will have two main consequences in the e-learning sector:

1. A fostering in the use of online resources by lecturers in Higher Education, as they face classes with a lot of more students. Some of the lecturers that have never use a LMS in their classes before are pushed to do it to save time and effort and manage to overcome their busy schedules.

2. At the same time, the lack of funding might influence the implementation of LMSs and the recruitment of qualified e-learning professionals that could manage the new tendency.

The challenge for the European Higher Education sectors in countries like Ireland, Spain, Portugal... will be to provide enough professionals that could properly show the right path to all lecturers that struggle with new educational technologies in their classes.

The Higher Education system will need to plan the provision of more degrees and masters in e-learning in all that countries in order to counteract this situation.

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