A cloze activity
This iDevice is still experimental. Nonetheless it provides an easy way for teachers to create a cloze activity without the need to know any XHTML markup.
At the moment, the cloze activity uses a "predictive" text utility and will accept minor typo's by learners as correct answers. However, short words of three or four letters do not work well with this feature. In the future we will provide the option of turning off this feature, and look at ways in which it can be improved. There are certainly good educational reasons where correct spelling is an important learning objective, for example language teaching.

The preferred Learning Management System for this group of users is
. The
XHTML Editor (eXe) is an open source software alternative that teachers
and academics can use to author SCORM packages for Moodle. Oceania as a
region has demonstrated leadership in the development of open source
software solutions for e-learning because Moodle and LAMS were
developed in
, while eXe comes from
.
Clearly there is a strong link between Australia and New Zealand, because Martin's daughter is called
, which is a New Zealand
. However,
is a topic where we are unlikely to achieve consesus between Australia and New Zealand.