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Comment on The end of assessment as we know it by Betsy Bruce

Betsy Bruce — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:10:06 +0000

I agree. Traditional assessments (tests) should only be required when there is a some sort of government compliance requirement. Otherwise, make it real world!

Comment on 5 Not so Crazy Predictions for Education in 2012 by enzofsilva

enzofsilva — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:49:53 +0000

Here’s the comment I posted on Helena’s blog A Curiosidade after she mentioned my above post:

I’m glad you found my post relevant. Your take on these “predictions” (I use quotes because they are more of wishes of mine than simple predictions), is also refreshing. For instance, on the “dryness” of current open content: as you can see on my post, I am thankful organizations are offering free access content, but, to agree with you, this content seems too top-bottom (sage on the stage) without allowing learners to have much (if any) interaction with it other than “consume” it (watching, reading, or listening to the content). They also do not generally allow other educators to enhance, manipulate and re-share back to the community. So, in actuality, it is open access but not open source. Its a step toward freedom of purely educational content but not the end goal.

http://acuriosidade.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/five-predictions-for-the-future-of-education/

Comment on 5 Not so Crazy Predictions for Education in 2012 by Five predictions for the future of education | a.curiosidade

Five predictions for the future of education | a.curiosidade — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:23:52 +0000

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Comment on Gamifying Learning by enzofsilva

enzofsilva — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:47:59 +0000

Hi Andy.

Sorry, I did a search prior to posting this but I haven’t been able to find any Moodle modules that would provide anything related to gamification.
Please let me know if you find anything.
Cheers.

Comment on Gamifying Learning by Andy

Andy — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:38:22 +0000

Do you know of any Moodle gamification plugins that work well… especially integrated into the commenting/forum system?

Comment on Google Launches Its Own Open Source Learning Platform – CloudCourse by John R. Nyquist

John R. Nyquist — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:33:26 +0000

It’s very interesting. I like the use of Python.

Comment on Google Launches Its Own Open Source Learning Platform – CloudCourse by enzofsilva

enzofsilva — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:58:52 +0000

I’m not sure about the number of developers out there, but based on App Engine’s documentation, it seems to be a compelling development tool/framework: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/

Comment on Google Launches Its Own Open Source Learning Platform – CloudCourse by Betsy Bruce

Betsy Bruce — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:28:14 +0000

This is very interesting, Enzo. I don’t know very much about App Engine…wonder if there are many developers out there. I haven’t worked with Moodle but I’ve heard it’s a bit confusing.

Comment on Is HTML5 the Future of eLearning? by enzofsilva

enzofsilva — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:24:00 +0000

Hi Adam.

Thanks for sharing.

This part of the article you reference is strikingly elucidative of the future of mobile devices (if not all Web-enabled devices) as we move toward an adoption of open standards:

“Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. Rather than use Flash, Apple has adopted HTML5, CSS and JavaScript – all open standards. Apple’s mobile devices all ship with high performance, low power implementations of these open standards. HTML5, the new web standard that has been adopted by Apple, Google and many others, lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins (like Flash). HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a standards committee, of which Apple is a member.”

What do you think is/will be the impact of such move toward open standards, technology and culture in Education?