There's a hidden gem in Moodle called the Feedback activity. It might not receive a lot of attention, but, once you start experimenting with it, you'll likely find a lot more possibilities for it than you imagined — from simple quiz creation to class discussions designed to keep students engaged in the learning material.
Three Moodle updates were released over the weekend, addressing security issues and bugs and adding some minor feature enhancements.
Indiana University has received an $882,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), an open source library software system that helps research and academic libraries oversee and provide access to their growing collections.
A new standard for Internet security and privacy has been ratified by the OpenID Foundation.
Marist College has launched a student-driven online collaborative learning environment called The FOLD (Fashion Online Learning Domain).
Swiss developer Connect-i has released a hosted version of its Drupal-based learning management system, Opigno.
GitHub, the software development hub for collaboration and code hosting and distribution, has created a new service specifically for education.
Higher ed now has a new option for implementing computational statistics and predictive analytics in their courses and research programs. Revolution Analytics, which sells enterprise versions of open source programming language R, has launched a program specifically for colleges and universities that want to adopt the software.
The Open Compute Summit saw news from multiple technology companies eager to join a movement that's changing the components that make up datacenters.
Red Hat has updated Red Hat Academy, its open source education program for high school and postsecondary students.
