Moodle Development Educause Australia 6th May 2009 (edaust09)

Using open source to
support education

Martin Dougiamas
Lead Moodler
Executive Director, Moodle Pty Ltd

History
1999 0.0 First prototype versions
11 / 2001 0.9 First pre-release version on the web
8 / 2002 1.0 Forum, Survey, Journal, Resources, Quiz...
8 / 2003 1.1 Backups, Workshop, Chat, Scales...
3 / 2004 1.2 Filters, Groups, Glossary, Lesson ...
5 / 2004 1.3 Calendar, Blocks, RSS, Media plugins ...
8 / 2004 1.4 Installer, Resources, Enrolments, Wiki...
6 / 2005 1.5 XHTML, Themes, Blocks, Gradebook ...
6 / 2006 1.6 Unicode, Database, Docs, Blogs, Reports ..
11 / 2006 1.7 Roles, Admin, Oracle and MSSQL, AJAX ..
3 / 2007 1.8 Accessibility, MNet, Forms, Multi-auth...
3 / 2008 1.9 Gradebook, Outcomes, Performance, Tags, Notes..
? 2.0 ?
Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

2.0Wait
for it!


Open Source Software

Free to download
Free to use
Free to explore, modify and extend
Free to distribute (under GPL)

And you are...

Free to help with development
Free to choose your service supplier
Free to make money from it
Free to use something else!


Statistics

Over 54,000 registered veriﬁed sites in 209 countries

Registered sites contain over 31 million users,
2.8 million courses and 1.8 million teachers

469 sites have more than 10,000 users
(OU has 3590 courses and 452,483 users)

Interface translated into 75 languages

42 specialised Moodle Partners


Community roles
There are over 600,000 registered participants in
the Moodle Community at moodle.org
(about 1000 new accounts being created each day)
Other
8.0%
Software Devs
Teachers
8.0%
35.0%
Researchers
11.0%

Educational Admins
16.0%

System Admins
22.0% Source: Moodle Community 2008


Moodle Forums


Moodle Docs


Tracker


Moodle Tracker

Votes and
Bug
Comments Ideas
reports

tracker.moodle.org

Quality
Priorities Information
Code


Moodle Moots


What drives
Moodle requests?


Key Drivers

Integration
Administration

Usability Pedagogy

Open Web Control

Administration

Create/remove courses
Create/remove users and roles
Move people in and out
Manage activities within courses
Structure the site (courses, blocks, etc)

Administration Integrations Usability Open Web Control Pedagogy Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

Web Services

SOAP

XML-RPC

External Server
Application

Moodle Core
REST Functions

AMF

External Client
Application


Integrations

Pull content into Moodle
Push content out of Moodle
Exchange users and courses with other systems (SIS, HR)
Blend with institution web sites
Blend with open web sites and services
Remote control of Moodle
Alternative interfaces such as Flash, iPhone, etc


Repositories

Almost
any other
content
repository

Moodle
Files


Portfolios

Almost
any other
content
repository

Moodle
Files and Pages


Usability

Consistent navigation
Consistent layout and structure
Beautiful themes
No dead ends
Plenty of AJAX where appropriate
Testing on real users
Accessible on a wide range of devices


Navigation


Usability
Gradebook

Roles


Open Web

Hundreds of other ICT tools out there
Encourage mashups inside and outside Moodle
Duplicate functionality where required inside Moodle


Messaging


Google Integration

Moodle users are automatically created in Google Apps
Log in to Moodle -> logged in to Google Apps
Gmail block in Moodle shows recent Gmail messages
Apps block show links to all the Google Apps
Google Widget shows a link to Moodle on iGoogle and Gmail etc


Control

Any CMS/LMS/VLE is a system of control
Many educators want to increase their control
Others want to give more control to students
Conditional activities
Individual permissions
Privacy restrictions
General security


Improved roles?


Conditional activities


Pedagogy
10. Share ideas, active research, communities!
9. Use Survey tools and logs to study / reﬂect
8. Use peer-review modules like Workshop
7. Introduce external activities and games
6. Combine the activities into sequences
5. Facilitate active discussions in the Forum
4. Use Wiki, Glossary, Database (collab content)
3. Use Quizzes/Assignments (less management)
2. Have a passive Forum
1. Publish some content (Resource, SCORM)

Case studies

School of Independent and Distance Education
Bold Park Community School
demo.moodle.org competition
Yours! We love them, especially when they
produce recommendations!


Community Hubs

Community Directory

Registration

In

User info User info
Institution A Institution B
Community Hub

Interaction
Interaction Interaction with students
with students with peers
Interaction
with peers

Read from Write to
Repository Repository

Teacher using courses Teacher producing courses


2.0
Major Rewriting Major New Features
•Database access / data handling •Repository integration
•File storage and handling •Portfolio integration
•Roles and enrolments •Conditional activities
•Wiki 2.0 •Course completion
•Messaging •Progress Tracking
•Backups •Feedback module
•Gradebook and Roles •Blog 2.0
•Navigation and Blocks •Site-wide groups
•Themes •Secure RSS feeds
•Text formats •Web Services
•Commenting •IMS CC
•Javascript handling •Community Hubs
•Lesson 2.0 •Totally ﬂexible user ﬁelds
•Workshop 2.0

We need your help!

docs.moodle.org/en/Roadmap

Moodle Development Educause Australia 6th May 2009 (edaust09)

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Destaque

Destaque (17)

Mais de Martin Dougiamas

Mais de Martin Dougiamas (10)

Último

Último (20)

Moodle Development Educause Australia 6th May 2009 (edaust09)