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By Kristen Salathiel Most of my ENG 97/107 students have never read a whole book before. Since reading is such an important skill for college and life, my colleague Nancy Gray and I work hard to turn these students into readers. We want them to not just gain some...

This Jan 3 article from Inside Higher Ed describes a Competency-Based Learning degree, complete with digital badges, from UC Davis. The University of California at Davis is creating what may be higher education’s most promising digital badge system. But the badges are...

Here is a quick summary of what we are working on. Editing Your Course: There is an issue accessing the Edit drop down menu when blocks are docked. This is a known issue and it will be resolved shortly. In the meantime, undock all your blocks in your course, refresh...

While looking for specific higher-ed competency definitions, I ran across http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency. About mid-way through the article, the authors include the section "Standards, Performance Indicators, and Outcomes" where five...

A new, easy way to move Topics, Items, and Blocks in Moodle was included in the update. Do you remember how hard it was to move items and how frustrating it was to move a topic section? You would get half way down the page and you would loose it and have to start all...

You may have noticed the Course Menu block is no longer in your course. If you used the Course Menu block, it has now been updated to the Course Content block. Add this block to your course by doing the following. Turn editing on. Use the Add a Block drop down menu to...