Blog
OpenPBL website relaunched
I finished the revision of the structure of the entire OpenPBL.org site, with at least half of the content already…
Jul / 2023
OpenPBL UI/UX done
I finished the specification of the UI/UX for the OpenPBL app, which has been developed to be a web app.…
Jul / 2023
PBL activity storyboard
With the advancement of the resumption of the project, I received today the storyboard with the demonstration of a simple…
Jun / 2023
Pivoting OpenPBL plans
I did one last attempt, via email, to convince Moodle HQ to transform the Assignment module to allow Moodle implement…
Jul / 2022
Retaking lost skills
I started a new learning journey today: programming language. Negative experiences depending on third parties to put my ideas into…
Jul / 2021
I got a second PhD degree
After overcoming all the final bureaucracy for the completion of the second PhD, today I defended the proposed thesis, and…
Nov / 2020
Research Ethics Committee
The nightmare of the approval of the research project with the Brazilian Research Ethics Committee , after months and three…
Apr / 2020
Moodle Moot Global 2019
There were many contacts with Moodle Partners in Barcelona, and at least a good conversation with Martin Dougiamas (CEO of…
Nov / 2019
A second failure
I received the code of the Moodle plugin under development, at least until what was completed. The plugin could be…
Jul / 2019
Brazilian developer
New attempt to develop the Moodle plugin with a Santa Catarina developer. The document with the specification was referred and,…
Feb / 2019
Freelancer.com no more
Hiring of the Indian company was a mistake. They did not comply with deadlines, they had no developers available when…
Jan / 2019
Let’s use a freelancer developer
I hired, through the Freelancer.com portal, an Indian software development company to execute the 53 -page file specification of OpenPBL.…
Oct / 2018
No help from Moodle Partners
Throughout this doctorate, I contacted several Moodle Partners from different countries, including Brazil (in this case face-to-face). I presented the…
Oct / 2018
OpenPBL in Mexico
I traveled to Mexico, to present a work on OpenPBL, at this time reasonably specified. Very good the experience in…
Sep / 2018
OpenPBL basic idea was approved
I defended my qualification for the second doctorate. What had to do to make OpenPBL a reality was already all…
Dec / 2017
Curricular PBL in Curitiba
I traveled to Curitiba, visit the Little Prince College, where prof. Kaufman had implemented, years earlier, curricular PBL. It was…
Jun / 2017
Thank you Dr. Kaufman
I ended my participation in the Ergodesign event as a staff. The scientific conference, promoted at UFSC, allowed me to…
Jun / 2017
OpenPBL gets a practical format
I finished in record time the class phase of the second doctorate, reached the number of publications necessary for the…
Sep / 2016
As of now, I am EdD
Today I finished the first doctorate, the thesis was successfully defended, which gives me more time to research PBL and…
Jul / 2016
OpenPBL as a thesis
I started the second PhD (without yet the first one done). The proposed research theme was accepted: a proposal to…
Mar / 2016
A second doctoral degree
I delivered the research project to apply for a place in the PhD program of the Federal University of Santa…
Nov / 2015
When OpenPBL project started
I finished consulting in an extensive specification of how the plugin to enable Moodle in PBL use should be improved,…
Sep / 2015
The first spark
My first doctoral advisor asks for help to develop an application for PBL implementation in a research by the University…
