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1. Slide 1: Putting Moodle to Work Steve Rayson, Partner Mark Aberdour, Chief Executive www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
2. Slide 2: Agenda • What is Moodle and who uses it? • What you get with Moodle - and what you don't • How you can use Moodle - Example implementations • Licence free but investment you need to make • 5 top tips and 5 key mistakes to avoid • Moodle community support www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
3. Slide 3: What is Moodle? • Open Source LMS/VLE • Linux/Windows/Mac • Used by Open University • Widely used Poll 2 www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
4. Slide 4: Medium & Small Companies E-learning Guild Research – April 2007 www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
5. Slide 5: 10% of surveyed companies use Moodle in the US www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
6. Slide 6: Moodle Growth www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
7. Slide 7: • How many active Moodle developers are there? • How many community users are active answering questions each month on the Moodle forum? • Is it available in different languages? www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
8. Slide 8: Moodle Some Facts Development team 130+ active developers size Customer base 47,600+ registered sites serving 22m users 293 registered sites with over 10,000 users Open University: 3590 courses and 452,000 users Localisation 75+ language packs available Popularity 70,000+ downloads per month Nearly 500,000 registered community users Community growing at 850 users per day 30,000 active on the community site each month www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
9. Slide 9: The Open Source advantage  No licence costs Did you know that 24% of commercial LMS buyers want to change platforms?  Avoid vendor lock-in They cited a number of key problem areas:  Mitigation of vendor collapse  out of the box functionality or product discontinuation  management reporting  ease of customisation  Enhanced reliability  inflexible data models and architectures  rapid return on investment  Fixes and patches get to  vendor service and support market more quickly (Bersin, 2007)  Ease of customisation www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
10. Slide 10: Why do companies use Moodle? www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
11. Slide 11: How companies use Moodle www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
12. Slide 12: Four Key Moodle Uses • E-learning launching and tracking • Facilitating learning – Discussion forums – Chat rooms – Wikis • Supporting classroom courses • Online performance support centre – Sales academy www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
13. Slide 13: What you get • Fully featured VLE/LMS • Robust • Scalable • Customisable • Easy to use • Supported – free and paid www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
14. Slide 14: • What features does Moodle provide? www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
15. Slide 15: Features Upload range of content Functionality includes • e-learning packages • full tracking • word documents • calendar • pdf documents • discussion forums • audio • chat rooms • video • RSS feeds • web links • blogs • wikis • groups www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
16. Slide 16: Ease of Use • Moodle modular with many components • Simply turn them on and off as needed • Create side blocks for news, promotions, links etc. • Move side blocks with click of a button • Change look easily • Add resources easily www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
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18. Slide 18: Case Studies www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
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26. Slide 26: What do you need to spend money on? www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
27. Slide 27: Moodle Investment • Hosting & back up • Customise look and feel • Reporting • Course set up • Admin and tutor training • Bespoke modules www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
28. Slide 28: Top Tips • Start small eg sales academy • Customise look and feel • Use variety of media • Let tutors run their courses/areas • Integrate other tools eg – Slideshare – Youtube – Surveymonkey – News feeds www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
29. Slide 29: Community Support • Moodle is a community project • Great support from the Moodle community • www.moodle.org www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
30. Slide 30: Resources www.kineo.com www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com
31. Slide 31: Try It www.kineoopensource.com www.kineoopensource.com www.kineo.com