Why I Run My Own Moodle And What I’m Building at courses.psycholo.ge

When we talk about teaching and learning technology, most conversations circle around a few big names. Google Classroom is everywhere in schools. Coursera and edX dominate the online course market. Universities run their own learning management systems, often locked-down platforms that faculty and students learn to tolerate rather than love. But there’s another option that … Read more

From SPSS to R – Why the Switch Matters

If you studied psychology in Georgia, or in most of the world, really, you learned statistics through SPSS. You opened the data, you clicked through menus, you got tidy output tables, and you wrote up your results. SPSS has been the default statistical software in psychology departments for decades, and that legacy runs deep. But … Read more

Why I Run All My Research on LimeSurvey

If you do research that involves collecting data from human participants, and most psychology research does, you need a survey platform. Most people default to Google Forms because it’s free and familiar. Some go to commercial tools like Qualtrics or SurveyMonkey because their institution pays for them. A few build custom solutions in code. I … Read more

Why Open-Source Personality Assessment Matters – And Why I Built One for Georgia

If you’ve ever taken a personality quiz online – one of those “Which Harry Potter character are you?” tests, or a viral “What does your favorite color say about you?” quiz – you’ve engaged with something that looks like psychological assessment but isn’t. These quizzes are entertainment. They have no scientific basis, no validated psychometric … Read more