Poise

Poise is a trait that is not often conversed.

It is one of the most significant characteristics of leaders. Psychologically explained, a state of mental equilibrium. This state may result to numerous consequences, good and bad both. A leader should possess this peculiarity having faith on oneself and the team he/ she leads. Poise is nothing but a calm and composed state while performing tasks.

It is said that an unruffled mind can find several substitutes to a challenge. Moreover, it is about the impression you make, on the team. Poise gives an ability to unearth and suggest solutions. Poise entices a leader to carry oneself in a dignified manner always, be it a failure or success.

Leaders should lead the team with an objective to always be consistently better. Success with colleagues or wins over competitors; they must express dignity and compassion to others. And as far as failures are concerned, they are bound to happen; success is to those who have practiced and learned from failures. As said, If you did not had a fall, you cannot be a good horse rider.

But, more than anything, it is the spirit, the positive attitude leaders carry, and the impression they leave over colleagues. Poised, or an equilibrium state makes a leader more confident to strike harder every time try and hit bulls-eye, this eventually sends a green signal to the team to be assertive and develop faith, on the leader and then the organization.

Moodle 3, a Review

Moodle generation 3 is out now. In case you do not know, Moodle is an Open Source software, used to create online learning environment. This version was not as desperately awaited as generation 2, reason being, Moodle2 (used as M2 hereafter) has already given a lot to the elearning sector and has drastically improvised academic and business institutions with stable wireframe, feature rich functionality and add-ons.

 

Technical Requirements:

Minimum Server, PHP 5.4.4. , PostgreSQL 9.1 OR MySQL 5.5.31 OR MariaDB 5.5.31 OR Microsoft SQL Server 2008, OR Oracle Database 10.2

Upgrade possible, from M2, Version 2.2+

Browser Support, Google Chrome 30+, Mozilla Firefox 25+, Apple Safari 6+, Microsoft IE, 9+

 

Moodle in elearning is no less to compare as Gmail in email world.

Moodle 3, (used as M3 hereafter), was released as expected in the month of Nov 2015. It has numerous add ons as compared to M2. The change in structure is not that evident, which is good, but functionality wise it is definitely an A+ for Admins and Executors. It has 100’s of improvement that will help you in your day to day work. Although it is not as striking as Moodle 2+, but definitely a feature rich version and a few but remarkable add-ons on operational level.

Operational Features:

Interactive Question World: M3 will help you create more of interactive questions with quiz activity pool. It has become more users friendly and adaptive. 4 new interactive question formats are the highlight of this version, which are,

1. Select Missing Word Option,

2. Drag and drop text

3. Drag and drop onto an image

4. Drag and drop markers

5. Workshop report is available within the activity itself, to view participation status if all users.

6. Database entries can be marked for authentication, a teacher/ moderator can approve the entries posted by users, helps verification of the content.

7. Allows moderators/ teachers to make the date visible to users, to let them know,the date a new resource is added to a course, as was in site pages earlier.

8. Categories are now known as GradeBook setup in M3 which is less confusing and more specific.

9. A brilliant filter option, on the enrolled user screen within the course to view the participation and access status.

10. Tags can be generated and plugged from the course edit page. These tags can be added to the courses and users can search a course using these tags.

11. Excellent Atto Editor, with lots of new features with respect to add colours and table functions.

12. Messages, any user can now delete personal messages from their inbox, this control to user end was much needed.

13. Moodle Mobile, better than ever, chat is the one thing that everyone was looking forward to, now M3 on Moodle Mobile will allow users to chat on moodle platform using mobile phones.

Administrative Features:

14. Editing a course has been streamlined without going into Edit options, it is all on the screen now.

15. Reset Dashboard Page, any change happened to the profile and dashboard page, will reflect to all new and existing users, unlike previous version. Helps admin to force the important blocks as and when required.

16. Safe upgrade of Version, now a key is required for admins to upgrade from GUI, this will prevent non-authenticated users to not destroy the code.

17. Plugin Upgrade, now a admin, can upgrade a plugin the from GUI itself, it is a major advancement to download and upgrade a existing plugin on moodle database, without going to the database.

 

M3 it’s not a whole new Moodle, it’s just a best Moodle Yet!!!

Ref Source: Moodle.org Moodle.com, Moodle Cloud, Code also available on AWS powered by Bitnami.

Learning, has it become smart? Is it called eLearning?

Don’t know much about it, don’t worry, the below text will make you understand it very well.

ELearning is the method of sharing information, primarily the learning content to the target audience through the digital media. This digital media is not constrained to computers only but stretched to smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices through the internet or through the file share mechanism. It is considered as the best practice to use the different form of technology to support learning.

Compared to the times earlier, we now have videos, interesting voice over explanations that strengthen our learning to the times we had paper, pen, a dense textbook and the board. Often it was like, losing the track or the interest by the time tutor was about to discuss the important points. But, these videos and interactive quizzes and voice overs binds our attention and enables us to keep on the required track as decided by the trainer or tutor. It is proven that such interactions helps in better visualize the concept and also deepens our thinking.

These interactive media not only helps us simplify the concept but to better retain them over our conventional pedagogy. It is scientifically demonstrated that 9-12 minutes is the maximum that an individual’s attention can be effectively captured. So videos within this time frame ensure smart learning with significant information transfer.

An individual learner can better absorb the learning concept when he/ she is aware of the know-how of the platform or the medium used. So, one Smart technique to use is to adopt the most familiar tool to impart smart learning or make the users aware of the play. For example, searching something on google is a lot easier than on dogpile. Hence, awareness and familiarity with the package is one amongst the important strategy to adopt.

Elearning is constantly rising not because of the trend but majorly because of the usability, flexibility and affordability. The learning exchange, collaboration and accessing the best learning material is the clicks away. Not only with academics but also very famous with corporates. The Training and Development cell can make the learning reach the far-off stationed employee at individual’s convenience and pace. Employing elearnig methodology has fanatically reduced the training and development cost to the company.

Digitizing your learning content, making them available on the flexible and usable platform can make your content reach to the maximum and utilized maximum with expected outcome. Elearning technology has made learning more interactive, effective, fun, controlled, interesting and economical as well.

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