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Learning and Teaching Centre

Use the navigation at left to read more information about Macquarie's mainstream Learning Technologies supported by the Learning and Teaching Centre.

Wimba Live Classroom
Wimba Live Classroom provides the means to conduct scheduled online meetings with learners or other colleagues. The facilitator controls the meeting and may provide slides and other content, and users can share a white-board and communicate via text, audio and in some circumstances video.
Wimba Course Genie
Wimba Course Genie provides the means to convert Microsoft Word documents into standard, accessible web pages which can be easily imported into a variety of learning platforms, including Blackboard CE6 and Moodle.
Moodle
Moodle is a Learning Management System which is sometimes used as an alternative to Blackboard CE6, because of its wide variety of third party modules and the ease with which it can be customised due to the fact that its source code is open.

Blogs
A Weblog (commonly known as a blog) is an online journal owned by an individual who posts dated entries which readers can comment on. The posts can be more or less formal, on any topic and include a variety of content such as text, pictures, multimedia and links to other websites. More about Blogs >>
Wikis
Wiki software allows many users to edit text on a web page. Thus, the page's content is the result of collaboration between interested, knowledgeable participants. Read, write and edit page permissions can be assigned to particular users. More about Wikis >>
Podcasts
A podcast is a program containing audio and/or video content published over the Internet at regular intervals, where episodes can be automatically downloaded as they are released by subscribing to the podcast using special software. The program can then be listened to or viewed on one's computer or on a mobile device like an iPod or Smartphone. More about Podcasts >>