What I’ve starred this month: September 28, 2013
Here's some posts which have caught my attention this month: The maturing of the MOOC: literature review of massive open online courses and other forms of online distance learning – […]
September 2013
Hosting WordPress within your institution: Notes from a conversation with Joss Winn (University of Lincoln)
There is a growing list of educational uses for WordPress beyond a reflective blogging tool. Recently Joss Winn from the University of Lincoln took time out to speak to me about how since 2008 they’ve gone on to host and support over 1,800 WordPress sites with one server, one WordPress installation and one part-time person.
Sitrep: Goodbye Cetis, hello ALT and the Open University
In this post I say farewell to Cetis and highlight some projects I’m now working on
Exploring Google Analytics event tracking to validate MCQs with options for advanced cohort analysis
An exploration of Google Analytics as a way for collecting and analysing responses to multiple choice questions. This post highlight the new advanced segmentation within Google Analytics and addresses how data can distributed and analysed in separate tools
altc2013 building new connections: Notes on integrating Conferencer, BuddyPress, FeedWordPress and MailPress for a conference platform
I’m not entirely sure what this post is. I started writing it on the train down to altc2013 and think it lost its focus between York and Sheffield. Essentially I wanted to write this to highlight some of the benefits of using BuddyPress as a way to capture user activity streams but at the same time some of the challenges of achieving an integrated experience using WordPress. I’ll let you decide it’s value and please feel free to comment (the ‘dirty code’ post will be a lot better).
Horses for open courses: Making the backend of a MOOC with WordPress #altc2013
On Tuesday (10th September, 2013) I’ll be giving a short presentation at altc2013 on using WordPress as a course platform for ocTEL. I had planned to write more about the actual presentation but instead got lost in how to box an open course.
How to add Feedly to the Chrome RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)
I’m a self-confessed RSS junkie, I ❤ RSS, so ‘How to add Feedly to the Chrome RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)’