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Martin Dougiamas

Martin Dougiamas

Martin Dougiamas

URL

by Martin Dougiamas - Monday, 3 November 2003, 1:04 AM
 

A Uniform Resource Locator is the address that is used to reach a website. For example, http://moodle.org/

Martin Dougiamas

Usability

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 2 March 2005, 7:28 PM
 
The effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction with which users can achieve tasks in a particular environment of a product. High usability means a system is: easy to learn and remember; efficient, visually pleasing and fun to use; and quick to recover from errors.

With software, the usability is very dependent on the interface.

Martin Dougiamas

wwwroot

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 4:28 PM
 
This is the setting inside config.php that tells Moodle where it is installed.  It has to be a full URL to the web site's "natural" address.  Some web sites may work under more than one address (for example www.example.com and example.com) but you should pick the main one.

Martin Dougiamas

XHTML

by Martin Dougiamas - Wednesday, 1 October 2003, 2:29 PM
 
XHTML will eventually replace HTML as the language used to program web pages for display in your web browser. It's actually very similar to HTML, but has stricter rules about the formatting. As the world moves to XHTML web browsers will display pages more consistently, and the web will also be more accessible to people with disabilities.

Martin Langhoff - Sailing

Martín Langhoff

Martin Langhoff - Sailing

Moodle Exchange

by Martín Langhoff - Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 1:39 PM
 
This area is for exchanging complete Moodle courses in Moodle Backup format, as well as other content like glossaries or quiz banks.

All content in here is free to download and use, and you can add and update your own content whenever you like.

The Moodle Exchange is at: http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=15

(This entry can be replaced with a Resource pointing to Moodle Exchange so that the link is more direct wink )

Martin Langhoff - Sailing

NZVLE Project

by Martín Langhoff - Friday, 3 June 2005, 1:29 PM
 

NZ Open Source VLE Project is a New Zealand-based project, hosted at Eduforge.org

It is helping Moodle adoption as part of a greater project of developing OSS e-learning application software for deployment throughout New Zealands education sector. System integration of portal website framework, lcms, content creation tools and modular toolkit.


Marty Jacobs

Marty Jacobs

Marty Jacobs

Grouping

by Marty Jacobs - Friday, 25 September 2009, 3:16 PM
 
A collection of groups, i.e. a group of groups!

See the groupings documentation.

looking through the window

Maryel Mendiola

looking through the window

Outcomes

by Maryel Mendiola - Sunday, 28 February 2010, 3:25 AM
 
An Outcome is like any other grade except that it can be applied to multiple activities. When the activity is marked, a mark should be given for the submission itself and for the outcome.


Outcomes are newly introduced in Moodle 1.9


basically implements a way to connect outcome statements with Scales.
Scales themselves are connected to courses and their activities.



Example

ExampleOutcome: ‘Identityin social psychology’

Scales:{Refuser, Drifter, Searcher, Guardian, Resolver}

Matt Bury

Matt Bury

Matt Bury

constructionism

by Matt Bury - Friday, 17 May 2013, 3:42 PM
 

Constructionist learning is inspired by the constructivist theory that individual learners construct mental models to understand the world around them. However, constructionism holds that learning can happen most effectively when people are also active in making tangible objects in the real world. In this sense, constructionism is connected with experiential learning, and builds on Jean Piaget's epistemological theory of constructivism.

Seymour Papert defined constructionism in a proposal to the National Science Foundation entitled Constructionism: A New Opportunity for Elementary Science Education as follows: "The word constructionism is a mnemonic for two aspects of the theory of science education underlying this project. From constructivist theories of psychology we take a view of learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge. Then we extend the idea of manipulative materials to the idea that learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product."

Source: Wikipedia.org


Matt Bury

ZPD

by Matt Bury - Friday, 17 May 2013, 3:44 PM
 

The zone of proximal development, often abbreviated ZPD, is the difference between what a learner can do without help and what he or she can do with help. It is a concept introduced yet not fully developed by Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896 – 1934) during the last two years of his life. Also, many theorists are still applying to their work today.

Vygotsky stated that a child follows an adult's example and gradually develops the ability to do certain tasks without help. Vygotsky's often-quoted definition of zone of proximal development presents it as...

"...the distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance, or in collaboration with more capable peers. For example, two 8 yr. old children may be able to complete a task that an average 8 yr. old can do. Next, more difficult tasks are presented with very little assistance from an adult. In the end, both children were able to complete the task. However, the styles methods they chose depended on how far they were willing to stretch their thinking process."

Vygotsky and some educators believe education's role is to give children experiences that were within their zones of proximal development, thereby encouraging and advancing their individual learning.

"The zone of proximal development defines functions that have not matured yet, but are in a process of maturing, that will mature tomorrow, that are currently in an embryonic state; these functions could be called the buds of development, the flowers of development, rather than the fruits of development, that is, what is only just maturing."

Source: Wikipedia.org



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