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Just did some reading about another activity based learning system called LAMS, developed at Macquarie Uni. Like Moodle, it seems to be based around social constructivist ideas – there’s lots of links to the IMS Learning Design specification. Both LAMS and the IMS Learning Design specification have already been discussed on one of the moodle forums. . . . → Read More: LAMS & IMS Learning Design Really enjoyed the Cert III macros class today. I spent a lot of time on Thursday building activities to scaffold a few concepts/skills in MS Access. I’m particularly enjoying seeing the participants investigating and learning themselves! For example, one of the focuses today was to see how we can use VBA within Access. We’ve already done . . . → Read More: Friday’s database session again! Just some more musings on the thought I had the other day for us, the web-design facilitators, to carry out a web project ourselves each semester. Perhaps it’d be better to use a single web-project as a case study each semester that we can do together as a class… This’d be a great way to involve the . . . → Read More: Further thoughts on Web Project… I just finished reading Martin Dougiamas’ reflection A Journey into Constructivism. It helpfully presented Martin’s own reflections from learning about constructivism in a format that espouses the benefits of constructivism – as best as one can in an essay! (I guess this essay designed to demonstrate his understanding of constructivism). The five modes of constructivism identified . . . → Read More: A reading on constructivism I’ve been trialling different methods lately to enable the web-design students to learn at their own pace… but combined with 8 hours of web-design on a Tuesday, it’s progressing at the cost of a headache each week! (For me and the students!) I think, within a social constructivist framework, it is inevitable that all learners will be . . . → Read More: A headache for progress… |
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