I see that Moodle can support a MySQL database. Has anybody implemented a system with a database of learning modules that a teacher can select from in creating a course? If so, then we can design such a database for easy searching by various relevant criteria and for linking modules together in sequences that respect topic dependencies.
Bryan Berry has suggested that we need something like 10,000 modules for every topic in every subject at every grade level in K-12. I am thinking of an architecture in which we could provide places for multiple versions of each topic module using different instructional methods keyed to different learning styles in different languages and cultures. For example, I might offer a lesson plan using Walter Bender's Turtle Art Portfolio functions and Alan Kay's Etoys/Smalltalk approach. You can get a bit of the flavor in my reworking of an Alan Kay lesson sequence on Galilean gravity at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt I intend to redo this again entirely in Turtle Art Portfolio soon, now that I have a lot more of the bits and pieces of my approach coming together. -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
