Paul Hibbitts
Educator, interaction design practitioner and software developer.
The Grav Course Hub project (www.gravcoursehub.org) was created to help other educators 'flip' their LMS with the Grav (www.getgrav.org) Web platform. Course facilitators and students are empowered to shape their online environment when the front-end of an institutional LMS is replaced with an open and collaborative platform such as Grav. In addition to being very flexible and fast, Grav is built using industry standards (i.e. Markdown, YAML, Twig, etc.) and due to its file-based nature supports tools such as GitHub for collaboration.
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In this ETUG TELL presentation, Paul will share his flipped-LMS approach using an open and collaborative platform and introduce his ready-to-run open source course hub for use by other educators.
In this CNIE presentation, Paul will share his flipped-LMS approach using an open and collaborative platform and introduce his ready-to-run open source course hub for use by other educators.
In this presentation, Paul will share his flipped-LMS approach using an open and collaborative platform and introduce his ready-to-run open source course hub for use by other educators.
Move beyond the LMS with Grav! Do you have unmet pedagogical goals due to the constraints of your current LMS? Do you want to have a better experience for your students and yourself? In this hands-on workshop, Paul will provide a detailed introduction to Grav, the modern flat-file (no database) CMS and his open source Course Hub project to help other instructors flip their LMS to overcome these challenges. Participants should be comfortable with editing text files, connecting to a Web server, and be familiar with basic Web page elements.
A flipped-LMS is where an open platform, in the control of instructors and students, serves as an alternative front-end to the institutional LMS. In this presentation Paul will demonstrate how this approach can produce significant improvements to both the student and instructor experience. Elements from Paul's personal toolkit to be highlighted will include Canvas (naturally), the open source flat-file CMS Grav, and GitHub Desktop.
As mobile access is turning into primary access, many universities and organizations find themselves constantly challenged to keep up with student expectations. At the same time, we have moved further into an age of networked information and students have easier access to better quality educational resources outside of university than ever before. Faced with these opportunities, university instructor and software interaction designer Paul Hibbitts has pushed the boundaries of his multi-device course companions in order to improve learner experience and better support an open and ever-evolving learning ecology.
Given that mobile access is now the new baseline, what is the next step for us to help better support our students in this age of networked information? For Paul Hibbitts it starts with anytime/anywhere access, utilizes a development process where learning and technology are complementary partners, and evolves into the support and creation of learning ecologies
Even with the required use of an institutional LMS, instructors still have a wide range of open source options for providing a more customized experience for their courses. In this session, Paul Hibbitts will share with you his recent work with a modern flat-file (no database) Web platform/CMS called Grav (getgrav.org) to complement and enhance SFU’s Canvas LMS.