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

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! Copyright 2008 © Martin Dougiamas

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 Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

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 Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

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

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

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

Open Web Hundreds of other ICT tools out there Encourage mashups inside and outside Moodle Duplicate functionality where required inside Moodle Administration Integrations Usability Open Web Control Pedagogy Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

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

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

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

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

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 Administration Integrations Usability Open Web Control Pedagogy Copyright 2008 © Martin Dougiamas

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 Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

Moodle Development Educause Australia 6th May 2009 (edaust09)

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