Disclaimer, I work for Catalyst-EU part of the Catalyst group. However one of the reasons I wanted to work for them was their commitment to Free Libre and Open Source software. This blog post explains their approach. I really don't like the graphic that has been used.

https://www.catalyst-au.net/blog/open-source-at-catalyst-owning-your-digital-future

#FLOSS #gpl #datasovereignty #moodle #edtech #teaching #learing

Open Source at Catalyst: Owning our digital future.

At Catalyst, we don’t just promote open source through our support of platforms like Moodle - we live and breathe it in everything that we do

Catalyst IT Australia

The #Moodle #STACK question type is the most powerful and flexible #Maths related #quiz question type available free or paid for.

However installing it can be a challenge. The latest version has added improved error messages which I have seen as part of evaluating the latest release

https://docs.stack-assessment.org/en/Developer/Development_history/

#edtech #education #teaching #learing #mathematics #math

Post at Moodle.org about gamifiction

"Duolingo’s goal isn’t to turn anyone bilingual, but to get the user to open the app tomorrow, and the day after, and the next... In the end, did it teach a language-or did it teach you not to lose the game? "

I quickly came to despise the gamification aspect and passive aggressive nagging and stopped using it.

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=471278#p1892219

#moodle #edtech #pedagogy #teaching #learing

Lernprozess 🦾

Manchmal fühlt sich Lernen nicht wie Fortschritt an, sondern wie Stolpern. Aber jedes Stolpern zeigt, dass wir in Bewegung sind.

#Mindset #learing

#statstab #459 Getting Comfortable with Expressing Beliefs as Distributions

Thoughts: Bayesian stats requires a good understanding of priors, but these are often unintuitive. Plots help.

#bayesian #priors #ggplot #r #dataviz #learing #education

https://brian-lookabaugh.github.io/website-brianlookabaugh/blog/2025/priors-distributions/

Getting Comfortable with Expressing Beliefs as Distributions – Brian Lookabaugh

Thinking about our beliefs as distributions is not super intuitive for most people, which creates a stumbling blog for getting into Bayesian statistics. Check this blog out to break down the mystique!

#Moodle ER Diagrams for 5.1

My 21 year /rest of life mission...

I have updated https://examulator.com/er to cover Moodle database structure for 5.1.

It includes information that is not contained in the source code, including table and field comments. It also includes links to useful queries at moodle.org. See this table https://www.examulator.com/er/output/tables/quiz.html

If you scroll to the bottom of each page you will see an er diagram showing the relationships with other tables.

#edtech #teaching #learing

Moodle ERD

I was ego surfing Youtube recently and came across my presentation to #MoodleMootIEUK2016 about upgrading plugins for a new version of Moodle. The advice I give is generally still relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNkHW0KOSiE

#moodle #edtech #teaching #learing

If you would like #Moodle to have double marking this may be of interest

https://fund.moodle.org/community-projects/double-marking/

#edtech #teaching #learing

Moodle Double Marking Project – Fund Moodle

#statstab #414 The Bayes factor {shiny app}

Thoughts: It's almost the start of term, so here is another teaching tool for learning about Bayes Factors.

#nhbt #bayes #bayesfactor #learing #pedagogy #shiny #r

https://statsedge.org/shiny/LearnBF/

The Bayes factor

Before you continue to YouTube