LearnShifting

 Last week I attended a course creator and administration course for Moodle 2.2, the latest release to be deployed within the Department of Education here in the Northern Territory.

I won't try to repeat the three days of excellent training provideded by Julian of Pukunui but I will note the things that resonated with me as a person who manages the backend of our moodle system.

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This entry was posted on March 19, 2012 at 5:07 AM and has received 230 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

We are currently holding discussions across various agencies about learning management systems and delivery of training. I will be providing a list of solutions here that are probably a best bet. Before I do that, let's look again at the problem we are trying to solve or the efficiencies we are trying to achieve.

Common forms of training like orientation, financial procedures, health and safety are delivered face to face, sometimes involving travel and often repeated. These forms of training are good candidates for conversion to eLearning.

Additionally, many of these courses are very similar in nature and content across agencies is also very similar which means that if we can gather a common set of technologies and skills, agencies will be in a situation to share courses and content for repurposing without having to build from the ground up.

We can divide the learning requirements into training and support.

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This entry was posted on October 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM and has received 310 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

We use a number of authoring tools (Captivate, Articulate, Hot Potatoes) to create eLearning pieces that are produced as flash. We had been generating one of these pieces and although it played perfectly on my computer and other computers, it wouldn't play on another computer in our office.

This was my fault finding approach...

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This entry was posted on November 4, 2010 at 10:05 AM and has received 305 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

I was doing some work on an orientation course for our human resources division and was importing a PowerPoint into Captivate, which is an authoring program from Adobe. Previously everything had been fine, but now when the slides came in, they were tiny.

Culprit is the latest version of the Adobe Flash player 10.1

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This entry was posted on June 30, 2010 at 3:38 PM and has received 812 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.