The great Moodle migration.

The college is making the move from the Blackboard learning environment to Moodle this year. The whole process is pretty arduous because resistance to change is always rife amongst the staff and students; it is easier for most people to follow the path of least resistance and a migration to Moodle doesn't fall under that category. 

The RVC is right at the forefront when it comes to developing online learning materials. Most of our lectures are recorded with Echo 360 software which allows students to review both the accompanying power point and audio lecture at home. In addition to this there are online multiple choice questions to test yourself and numerous computer aided learning (CAL) programs to accompany specific material. These are designed to encourage students to go hunting around a subject and increase their breadth of knowledge. These have evolved over my six years at the RVC and get better and better as more students feed back to the staff; the CAL materials aren't universally loved though and many students would prefer all the material to be lectured in a more spoon-fed format. Whatever course you are interested in, I can't emphasise enough the importance of considering the programme structure and methods of teaching when you are choosing your university. If the teaching methods don't suit your individual needs you're fighting an uphill battle from the start.

Anyhow, I digress. The task of migrating the material has already begun and I am joining the effort. I need to start wrangling with Respondus to get the job done; I'd rather wrangle with Dreamweaver any day and that's really saying something. 

This just about sums today up.