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Bodington Buzz - UHI Millennium Institute Executive Office, Inverness.

This free seminar will be hosted by 'Learning and Information Services' of
the UHI Millennium Institute. UHI run the Bodington Virtual Learning
Environment locally. 

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 virtual learning environment.

10:30 Introduction
10:50 Bodington Demonstration, including QuickStart
11:20 Learning Design - LAMS
11:40 Personal Development Planning, ePortfolios, Skills profiling and
logbooks and their implementation in Bodington. 
12:10 Blogs and RSS feeds for dynamic data provision Oxford - Ramble
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30 Shibboleth integration allowing cross-institutional collaboration
1:50 Learning design sequences LAMS Open Source Software
2:10 Sophisticated assessment using TOIA free software Oxford/Strathclyde
University
2:30 Granular authorisation through The Bodington Open Source VLE
2:50 What's new in current and imminent releases of Bodington
3:10 Tetra: JISC ELF
3:15 Panel: Longterm directions of VLEs
3:45 Depart

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 UHI
Millennium Institute. 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 authorization and authentication store.

Bodington was developed at the University of Leeds and is now being used by
the, the UHI Millennium Institute, University of Oxford, the University of
Manchester, and various FE colleges. It is an open source system, and
entirely free to use, that is experiencing a considerable amount of
development work.

Location:

	Executive Office Boardroom, 
	UHI Millennium Institute, 
	Inverness. 

Time: 

	10:30 to 3:45

Further info and Booking:

	http://www.uhi.ac.uk/lis/buzz/ 

Adam Marshall (on behalf of UHI)
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