Overview of Moodle core development as of April/May 2011, from my recent keynotes

1. Martin Dougiamas
Moodle Founder and Director
Moodle Pty Ltd
@moodler #mootca11
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2. 1. Who is using Moodle?
2. How are they using it?
3. What should Moodle do?
4. What are we working on?
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3. Current Statistics
54,000 registered verified sites in 212 countries
(many more are not registered)
Registered sites contain 41 million users,
4.4 million courses and 1.1 million teachers
Over 1500 sites have more than 10,000 users
97 language packs exist, 17 are complete
54 specialised Moodle Partners
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4. 54,000+ installations
9991
4954
3993
3424
2555
2102 1884
1515 1377 1358
USA Spain Brazil UK Germany Mexico Portugal Australia Italy Columbia
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5. Example schools
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6. Example universities
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7. Example corporate users
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8. Pedagogical progression
10. Research, custom code, communities of practice!
9. Give students more power (structure/grades)
8. Use Survey tools and logs to study / reflect
7. Introduce external sites, activities, games, networks
6. Combine the activities into sequences
5. Facilitate discussions in the Forum. Questions!
4. Wikis, Glossaries, Databases (collaboration/media)
3. Provide a passive Forum 90% ?
2. Assess via Quizzes and Assignments
1. Publish content (Pages, SCORM, Video, Audio)
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9. Revolutionary theories?
xkcd.com
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10. Many people want an LMS like this:
• A private, secure place
• Replicate/enforce traditional roles
• Students seen as needing to gain
competencies and knowedge
• Content is structured and “dumped”
on the students to be absorbed
• Content is “pumped” out of the
students again and competencies
assessed via Quizzes
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11. But an LMS can also be like this:
• A focussed community of practitioners
• Everyone is a teacher and learner
• Connected activities that use different
strategies to gather data, reuse it,
analyse it, practice skills and so on.
• Integration with the rest of the internet
• Content is gathered/produced by
the students continuously
• Assessment takes place continuously
in a number of ways (everything is
assessable), by all participants
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12. And what about PLEs?
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13. My PLE diagram
Work
School
Generic web services
PLE
Family and friends
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14. Roadmap
Conservative Progressive
Security Communication-based pedagogies
Usability Community-developed modules
Assessment Drag and drop UI
Accreditation-focussed Mobile platforms
Detailed Management Innovative workflows
Tracking and Reports More integrations with everything
Performance/stability Media handling
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15. Growing core team
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16. New dev processes
Integration workflow in the tracker SCRUM-based development cycles for STABLE and DEV
In
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17. Regular major releases
Version Release Official support until
Moodle 1.9 March 2008 July 2012
Moodle 2.0 December 2010 December 2011
Moodle 2.1 June 2010 June 2011
Moodle 2.2 December 2011 December 2012
Moodle 2.3 June 2012 June 2013
Moodle 2.4 December 2012 December 2013
Moodle 2.5 June 2013 June 2014
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18. Moodle 2.0
•Security
•Performance
•Media management
•Integrations
•Usability, Appearance
•New Features
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19. 2.0
Improvements/Rewrites Major New Features
• File storage and handling • Navigation
• Roles and enrolments • Community hubs
• Messaging • Repository support
• Backup and Restore • Portfolio support
• Gradebook • Completion
• Blocks and Layout • Conditional activities
• Themes / AJAX / Interface • Cohorts
• Comments and Ratings • Web services API
• My Moodle • Secure RSS feeds
• Customisable User Profile pages • IMS CC
• Workshop / Chat / Lesson / Quiz • Blog associations and comments
• Wiki / SCORM / Resources • External blog support
• Database access / data handling • Translation engine
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20. Modular platform
ArandaLasch, flickr.com
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21. Moodle 2.0
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22. Moodle 2.1 - 30/6/11
•Performance
•Restore 1.9 backups
•Quiz / question refactor
•Paged course formats
•Interface polishing
•Official Mobile App
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23. 2.1 Quiz
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24. 2.1 Quiz
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25. 2.1 Quiz
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26. 2.1 Quiz
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27. 2.1 Quiz
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28. Many Mobile Apps
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29. Official Mobile App
•Task-Focussed
•Touch screens only
•Modular
•Secure
•Works offline
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30. Official Mobile App
Upload
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31. Official Mobile App
Participants
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32. Official Mobile App
Messaging
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33. Official Mobile App
Attendance
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34. Official Mobile App
•iPhone
•Android phone
•iPad
•Android tablets
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35. 2.2 and beyond
•Grading and Rubrics
•Competency Tracking
•Assignment
•Forum
•Survey (incl Feedback/Questionnaire)
•Lesson
•Scorm 2
•Improved reporting
•IMS LTI
•IMS CC
•etc
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36. Other projects
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37. Community Hubs
Community Hub
(Course list)
In
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38. Community Hubs
Community Hub
(Course list)
In
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39. Community Hubs
Community Hub
(Course list)
In
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40. In
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41. Contributed Plugins
•Versions
•Official Reviews
•Downloads
•Moodle integration
•Statistics
•Compatibility
•Communication
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42. Moodle Docs
• Admin and teachers combined
into one “User” manual
• One wiki per release
• Separate Developer wiki,
reference manual
• Templates
• Update processes, add
more non-volunteers
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43. Moodle web sites
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45. Questions?
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