Weekly Faculty Showcase Spotlight: Terry Plum
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Posted by TASC, March 26, 2008
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About the Faculty Showcase: This year’s Showcase is an opportunity to learn about the role technology is playing in teaching, learning, and research across the College. A series of posters will be on display to highlight innovative work being done by over fifteen Simmons College faculty members.
This Week: Terry Plum
DEPARTMENT: GSLIS
POSTER TITLE: Moodle in Vietnam
The Moodle learning management system (LMS) has been used to support six face-to-face courses taught in Hu? and Da Nang, Vietnam. Moodle has a number of instructional and technical advantages for the end users. As a LMS (Simmons eLearning is another example of a LMS), Moodle can be used to facilitate active learning. Since many Vietnamese universities cannot afford a proprietary LMS, the free and open source Moodle was a good match. Even for students and teachers unfamiliar with LMSs, there is a relatively short learning curve with Moodle. Additionally, Moodle supports Vietnamese characters.
On April 23rd, from 3:00-5:00 in the Kotzen room, Simmons faculty and staff are invited to attend a Faculty Showcase and reception. As part of the lead-up to the Faculty Showcase we are spending some time each week to spotlight the innovative work that will be shown at this year’s Showcase.
