Moodle 2.7 has been released. The upgrade to the popular free and open source learning management system includes new themes with improved responsive design, a new accessibility-focused text editor and more.
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.
The OpenID Foundation has launched a new standard for Internet security and privacy.
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.
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, an open source education program for high school and college students.
Moodle's developers have released a major update to the open source learning management system following six months of development.
Red Hat has released CloudForms 3.0, a major update to the company's cloud management platform. The new version adds support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and offers additional management capabilities for Amazon Web Services.