The document describes Moodle-IDEA, a project at the University of Guadalajara that uses the Moodle learning platform to create research communities and provide training. It discusses how Moodle-IDEA supports knowledge sharing, training professors, and social networking. It also details the FORTIN program which uses Moodle courses to develop IT competencies in high school students over six semesters.

1. Using Moodle-IDEA for Research,
Social and Learning Communities
CHALLENGES
Víctor Manuel González Romero
María Morfín Otero
Verónica Peña Guzmán
Universidad de Guadalajara,
Campus Puerto Vallarta
México
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2. Where we
Edmonton
are?
México
Jalisco
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3. University of Guadalajara
Council
- 13,800 Full time professors
- 9,800 Administrative & staff
President
Higher Education
Secondary Education
77,000 students
117,000 students
Senior High Schools:
6 Thematic
8 Regional Campuses 1 Virtual Campus - 14 Urban
Campuses
- 100 rural
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4. Centro Universitario de la Costa
Full time professors 92
Part time professors 287
Students 4,634
Bachelor Programs 14
Master Programs 6
Phd Programs 2
Administrative and Staff 160
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5. Context
• 2001-2002 Comparative Studies in
Learning Platforms
• 1998, UdeG was using WebCT.
• 2001, using Moodle at Health Campus.
• 2002, using Moodle at CUC, Puerto Vallarta.
• 2003-2004, using Moodle for Learning
Technologies Master Program.
• 2005, spread Moodle in 5 campus.
• 2006-2007, spread Moodle in Regional High
Schools.
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6. MOODLE-IDEA
IDEA:
INSTITUTE FOR
LEARNING STUDIES
META
SOCIAL-
FORTIN
AREAS
Moodle-
IDEA
KNOW-
TRAINING
LEDGE
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7. KNOW
Knowledge area
• Academic group for Learning Technologies
• Weekly on-line and virtual seminars
• Projects
• Campus moodle courses
• Other campus and school moodle courses.
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8. TRAIN
Training professors
• Academic group for Learning Technologies
– Training another Academics Groups
– Training other Campi (University Centers)
– Training primary, secondary and high school professors
– Hosting courses from different Schools and Universities.
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9. SOCIAL
SOCIAL area
• Social area for students
– CLUB for high school students from different regions.
• Social area for professors
– CLUB for different level education:
• High school
• Undergraduate
• Postgraduate
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10. META
Learning Technologies Master Programs
PROFESSORS
Since 2004 to 2008:
• 24 professors (21 Phd
META
SEMINARS STUDENTS
and 3 Master), from 8
different cities in México
and 2 in Canada.
CONFERENCES
• 253 students (97 graduated, students)
from 13 different states.
• 1 Student conference per semester
• 1 Virtual seminar per week
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11. META
Learning Technologies Master Program
3 Semesters, Full Time, On-line Program:
1st. 2nd. 3rd.
Semester
Semester Semester
15 On-line Courses (80hrs. each one):
P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 T
1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 2 3 4 5
r h
Blended Mode
F2F On-line F2F On-line F2F On-line F2F
week week week week
On-line seminar
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12. FORTIN
FORTIN, Information Technologies
for high school
Senior High School (49 courses)
10th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 11th Grade 11th Grade 11th Grade
1st sem 2nd sem 1st sem 2nd sem 1st sem 2nd sem
7 courses 9 courses 9 courses 8 courses 8 courses 8 courses
1. Math (5 hrs/week)
2. Logic (4 hrs/week)
3. Computing & programming workshop (4 hrs/week)
4. Learning seminar(4 hrs/week)
5. Spanish I (5 hrs/week)
6. Foreign language I (3 hrs/week)
7. Art fundamentals (3 hrs/week)
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13. FORTIN
Computing & Programming Workshop
Characteristics Description
Duration 1 semester
Workload 4 hrs/week
Model Teacher-centered, contents and context
Learning Information accumulation
4,455 Computers (25 students per
Equipment
computer) in Labs
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14. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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15. FORTIN
Goal
Develop IT competences in the
Senior High School Students of
the University of Guadalajara
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16. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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17. FORTIN
IT Competences Definition
• UdeG - Dr. Geoff Potter (University of Victoria).
• Based on Chinese and Canadian experiences
• To be developed in 6 semesters
• Student-oriented (ages 15-18)
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18. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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19. FORTIN
Competitions Diagnostics
292/300 Teachers 4200/9000 Students
On paper On Line
General concepts
General concepts
Hardware software
Hardware software
IT Skills
IT Skills
Attitudes
Educational Models
Demographic
Teaching on-line skills
Attitudes
Demographic
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20. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological solutions
9. Results
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21. FORTIN
Contents Development
Course Modules Units
1 5 19
2 5 21
3 5 15
4 5 23
5 6 28
6 6 23
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22. FORTIN
Contents Development
Course 1
Module Chapters
1. What is technlogy?
2. People’s technological needs
Exploring ITs 3. Problem-solving technologies
4. Information technologies
1. About computers
Learning about computers 2. Computer parts
3. Computers languages
1. From Eniac to Quantum
2. Exploring the desktop
3. Using the desktop
Exploring computers 4. Understanding software: proprietary and open source
5. The mathematics of computing: sorting, classifying
and storing data
1. Ergonomics
Keyboard 2. The keyboard
3. Typing techniques
1. Gathering information
2. Grouping similar types of information
Working with information 3. Thinking logically
4. LOGO
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23. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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24. FORTIN
Instructional Design
Learning Platform
5 modules (1 per month)
21 units (5 days each)
Skills development on 10th grade students
Resources and Challenges
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25. FORTIN
Instructional Design
CHALLENGES
RESOURCES
Forum
Files
Wikis
Books
Workshops
Web Pages
Assignments
Links
Evaluations
Objects
Projects
Glossaries
On-Line or Computer Assisted
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26. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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27. FORTIN
Moodle Course FORTIN 1
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28. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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29. FORTIN
Teacher Training
Phase 1:
Developed for training
Design the TEACHERS
FORTIN 1
trainers
COURSE
Phase 2:
Course FORTIN 1 implementation:
1 on-line week Last day
1st. day
1 on-line week F2F
F2F
Final presentations
Moodle Workshop
Changing activities
Using Moodle
and resource (custom)
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30. FORTIN
Teacher Training
Learning Studies Institute (IDEA)
Coordinates process and
Certifies the teachers
Strategy: Master Course
Training the trainers, distributing the
course
POLES Trainers Schools Teachers Courses
(51) (107) (339) (512)
(11)
1 5 17 46 46
2 6 16 26 50
3 4 16 41 49
4 4 8 14 29
Students trained:
5 4 13 23 42
more than 16k
6 5 6 34 68
7 6 4 26 63
8 10 8 45 69
9 6 7 57 67
10 1 6 14 19
11 0 6 13 10
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31. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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32. FORTIN
Hardware y Software
1st Stage:
SunFire 15k (4 CPU UltraSparc III, 1.2
GHz, 8GB RAM, SAN Disk (Storage 6920)
• Solaris 8
• Students: 5,000
• MySQL
• Apache
• Moodle
Problems:
• Student population grows to 12,000 in one week.
• Increase of a 30% to 40% on load-average
• 4 cpu’s goes to 100%
• Problems with MySQL
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33. FORTIN
Hardware y Software FRONT END
1 single processor V65
512 RAM
2nd Stage: 146GB HD
Load Balancer, Open Source SW POUND
~45,000 users NFS Server for Data in DB (moodledata)
~3,500 courses
MIDDLEWARE
5 dual processor V65 with HT technology
Moodle application and DB (moodledata) data
NFS mounting
BACKEND
T2000, 32 CPU
DB Server on Solaris 10, 32 threads
2 Gb for DB
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34. FORTIN
Hardware y Software
3rd Stage: FRONT END
4 processors 2K Mhz cores Intel Xenon
Dell Power Edge 1950
4 Gb RAM
160 GB HD
Linux Debian, Forenet
BACKEND
4 processor 2.7K Mhz Intel Xenon
V65 Sun Microsystem
2 Gb RAM
146 Gb & 72 Gb HD
Linux Red Hat
NFS Server for Data in DB (moodledata)
Moodle 1.9.2
Courses: 265
Users: 9,947
Professors: 96
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35. FORTIN
Process
1. Goal
2. IT Competences Definition
3. Competences Diagnostics
4. Contents Development
5. Instructional Design
6. Moodle Development
7. Teacher Training
8. Technological Solutions
9. Results
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36. FORTIN
Results
Students (on-line survey)
30.00%
Excellent
25.00%
Very good
20.00%
Good
Satisfactory
15.00%
Regular
Deficient
10.00%
Bad
5.00%
Poor
0.00%
Students say they learn (and work) more on-line
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37. FORTIN
Results
Course delivery
Students preferences
Don´t care,
13%
On-line,
53%
F2F, 34%
Note: Survey results for students that took an on-line course for the first time (15 years old)
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38. FORTIN
Results
Course delivery
Teachers preferences
Don´t care,
13%
F2F, 7%
On-line, 80%
Note: Survey results for teachers that delivered an on-line course for the first time
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39. FORTIN
Results
Teachers survey:
– 98% think using technologies is a good learning
strategy
– 100% consider these tools should be used in all
courses
– 96% would like to teach other courses on-line
– 94% think that on-line courses are good options
for Senior High School students
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40. FORTIN
New Challenges
• Increase the number of students from 25,000 to
125,000
• Increase the number of courses from 1 to 49
• Team teaching (ITs– English)
• Share the program with other institutions
• Start a similar program in Junior High Schools
(Target 400,000)
• Establish a Teaching On-Line Training and
Certification Center for the State of Jalisco
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41. Thanks for your comments
vmgonzalezromero@gmail.com
mmorfin@gmail.com
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