Bodington Buzz 4 July 05
- making learning more effective.
The LAMS learning design package has recently been released as Open Source;
TOIA is a highly regarded assessment engine free to UK Education
institutions; Personal Development Planning is becoming increasingly
required for institutional assessments either using blogging, e-portfolios
or other methods; institutions are increasingly looking to share data in a
secure way with other collaborating institutions with Shibboleth technology
being favoured. All these topics are addressed in the JISC e-learning
framework, and all have been integrated using the Bodington VLE.
All of these products are free, as is this seminar hosted by the Learning
Technologies Group at Oxford University! This showcases use and integration
of the most important tools through the use of the Bodington Open Source VLE
system as an institutional-wide central authorisation and authentication
store.
The talks and demonstrations are aimed at decision makers and potential
users of the system who may be considering adopting or switching to an open
source VLE. Bodington developers will be in attendance for discussion and
user-requirements gathering for future development.
The final programme is currently under development but will include:
# Personal Development Planning, ePortfolios, Skills profiling and logbooks
# Blogs and RSS feeds for dynamic data provision
# Learning design sequences LAMS Open Source Software
# Sophisticated assessment using TOIA free software
# Federated searching tools to produce reading lists
# Granular authorisation through The Bodington Open Source VLE
# The JISC E-learning Framework gluing things together
# Shibboleth integration allowing cross-institutional collaboration
# What's new in current and imminent releases of Bodington
# Longterm directions of VLEs
To book, please go to http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/bodington/
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Dr Paul V Davis
Deputy Head, Learning Technologies Group
Project Manager, WebLearn (Oxford's version of Bodington see
http://bodington.org)
Oxford University Computing Services
13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN
Tel: 01865 283414
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