I’ve recently taken an interest in a few Moodle.org Moodle courses. The first is Teaching and Learning with Moodle which is facilitated by Tomaz Lasic.

An organised, curated point for educators, new and experienced Moodle users alike to find out about Moodle, find quality links to sources of further information, collaborate on projects and share their best practices in teaching of children and adults in a range of settings.

This is a new course but long overdue! I’m very excited to learn and share here. One cool thing that Tomaz created in the course was a clever little resource called “Moodle Recipes for Educators – a community cookbook” where people can add examples of how they’re using Moodle in education. I haven’t added anything yet but plan to : )

The other course I’m going to mention is Moodle for Business Uses facilitated by Ralf Hilgenstock and Stuart Mealor. I just found this course today through a Linkedin Moodle group. I haven’t fully explored this course but I hope to get something out of it as I work with a business that uses Moodle for their courses.

This course is for discussing and sharing ideas about using Moodle for

* paid courses – where entrepreneurial businesses provide courses to customers in return for payment
* corporate education – where companies are implementing a site for internal courses

Take a look at all of the courses on Moodle.org.

Check of Global Classroom‘s post yesterday about a great opportunity to get some Moodle training for free! it looks like they found this through a discussion in the Moodle Meet Ning. I have not logged into that Ning for awhile, it looks like they did a little makeover. I need be better at checking that out!

On the ICT Guy blog, he posts about a Web 2.0 Moodle course for teachers professional development.

The aim was simply to be an introduction to the world of web2.0 and how it might impact on the classroom.

As a way of giving back to the open-source world he is offering to give the course away as a download, check it out!

Through my Google Reader I found a site that lets you convert your Blackboard course (.zip) to a Moodle coures. Check it out here.

*I have not tried this nor do I plan to try it (I do not have any Blackboard courses to use). If anyone has any experience with this tool – good or bad – please comment. Does it really work flawlessly?

In my last post I mentioned the new Moodle Porgramming Course you can enroll in for free (hosted on moodle.org). After posting I decided to enroll myself and see what it is all about. I was little hesitant to enroll because I was worried I wouldn’t have enough time to really get into the course but I enrolled and it looks great!

You can go at your own pace, communicate with other Moodlers and really grasp a variety of ideas surrounding Moodle. I am still on the first unit but I already like it so far. You go through the course just like any other online course. You do assignments, post in forums, talk with others and actually get feedback on your assignments.

More to come as I dig deeper into this course. Check out the Moodle Programming course if you have not already!

Latest announcement on Moodle.org

Are you interested in learning more about Moodle programming? – read more

Want to learn more about the development and programming of Moodle? Join the Moodle Programming course.

Course Description:

This course will provide an introduction to skills needed to create a Moodle block. Participants will examine accepted Moodle coding guidelines, including security and documentation issues. The course materials are designed for Moodle version 1.8.

This looks like a great course for programmers wanting to learn more about Moodle. It is hosted on Moodle.org. Take a look at the course syllabus.