4. Why Use Moodle/WordPress
1. Free
2. Intuitive
3. Feature rich
4. Themes
5. Plugins
6. Community
7. User centered
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5. Trivia…
Moodle
• Began as founder’s PhD
project
• Named in part for fun word
(Moodling: To dawdle
aimlessly)
• Acronym: Modular Object-
Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment
• The first version was released
on May 27, 2003
WordPress
• Forked from OSS platform B2
• Created by then 19-year-old
Matt Mullenweg and not-19
Mike Little
• Named by friend of Matt, now
brand marketer and boudoir
photographer
• The first version was released
on August 20, 2002
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6. Trivia…
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Moodle
• Began as founder’s PhD
project
• Named in part for fun word
(Moodling: To dawdle
aimlessly)
• Acronym: Modular Object-
Oriented Dynamic Learning
Environment
• The first version was released
on May 27, 2003
WordPress
• Forked from OSS platform B2
• Created by then 19-year-old
Matt Mullenweg and not-19
Mike Little
• Named by friend of Matt, now
brand marketer and boudoir
photographer
• The first version was released
on August 20, 2002
9. Moodle LMSs are great! But…
1. Not for every project
(Don’t always need a forum)
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10. What if you want to… you want to…
1. Tag or curate
resources
1. Not for every project
(Don’t always need a forum)
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11. Moodle LMSs are great! But…
1. Not for every project
(Don’t always need a forum)
2. Education, not business, focused
(Customization can be hard)
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1. Tag or curate
resources
12. What if you want to… you want to…
1. Tag or curate
resources
2. Advertise courses or
events
1. Not for every project
(Don’t always need a forum)
2. Education, not business, focused
(Customization can be hard)
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13. Moodle LMSs are great! But…
1. Not for every project
(Don’t always need a forum)
2. Education, not business, focused
(Customization can be hard)
3. Encourages a certain style
(Modular design)
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1. Tag or curate
resources
2. Advertise courses or
events
14. What if you want to… you want to…
1. Tag or curate
resources
2. Advertise courses or
events
3. Be fancy and well
designed
1. Not for every project
(Don’t always need a forum)
2. Education, not business, focused
(Customization can be hard)
3. Encourages a certain style
(Modular design)
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15. Example:
AFTERBEFORE
Insurance, the healthcare exchange, and
hospice care
How to have conversations about hospice
What is palliative care?
In-person workshops and radio shows,
topical
WordPress Method: Mobile responsive content
management system
Caregiver support: Protecting against caregiver
burnout
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20. Takes care of the “but”
“TAGGED”
Related content linked together
“MARKETABLE”
Meeting brand requirements, business need
“FANCY”
Aesthetically pleasing, designed to engage the
audience
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21. MODULAR
are chronological or progression based, with large chunks of
information that have to be experienced in a certain order;
trainer-designed pathways
TAGGED
encourages short chunks of topics that can be accessed in
different ways; there is no predetermined progression, and
content can be accessed in varied order; learner-designed
pathways
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22. Traditional Educational Interventions for
Community Oncologists and Patients
Experience deficit and knowledge gaps for those
treating patients
Changing treatment options for RCC
Traditional Method: Sessions, “chapter”
based
WordPress Method: Mobile responsive
performance support site
Example:
BEFORE AFTER
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35. Consider WordPress over Moodle for
learning if… you want to…
1. Tag or curate resources
2. Advertise courses or events
3. Be fancy and well designed
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In fact, who’s a bigger OSS nerd? Trivia competition. Three truths and a lie. Which is a lie
Release dates reversed.
Not just Moodle – some things that are disadvantaged to Moodle are disadvantages to all LMS
Major disadvantages (out of the box Moodle has features you won’t always use; built for education not business; has modular style)
Practical projects that are problematic with this reasoning
Major disadvantages (out of the box Moodle has features you won’t always use; built for education not business; has modular style)
Practical projects that are problematic with this reasoning
Major disadvantages (out of the box Moodle has features you won’t always use; built for education not business; has modular style)
Practical projects that are problematic with this reasoning
Go through Four Seasons example, using screenshots of site on next page—2 minutes
30 seconds
1 minute
30 seconds
30 seconds
30 seconds
Moodle encourages modular, traditional
Tagged allows for branching
2 minutes Mike
The first site we want to review with you is for Duke University Medical Center.
They had two challenges. Community practitioners outside of metro areas and outside of major medical centers don’t see enough renal cell carcinoma patients (patients with kidney cancer). Second, treatment options are changing. What does this mean for the community practitioner? (Ask audience) Knowledge gap
What Duke University wanted to do was share their internal knowledge about treatment with these community practitioners. And they had the idea that they would record lots of very short (under 2 minutes) videos of experts in this field.
When they came to us, they were able to describe what they needed. And what it turned out to be was a performance support system that serves up the right content at the right time. Some of you may refer to these systems as “point of need” where we integrate access to content within the user workflow., during their daily jobs.
Mobile was also a requirement.
1 minute Mike
The customer’s challenge was the knowledge gap, but our challenge was how to organize the site in terms of both what makes sense in terms of treatment and in terms of learner behavior and how someone would go to the topic they wanted and how they would search. (in this case it could be any number of people in the community practice).
So this took a few attempts with the SMEs as well as a really long whiteboard. Really long. Behind these categories is a “taxonomy” which is basically the engine for the site, the logic of how things are organized. The taxonomy is a really big spreadsheet. Even the search functionality follows the taxonomy and allows multiple ways to search.
So just to show you a few screen shots, we click on first line management decision.
30 seconds Mike
Under first line management decision, we see these three tagged videos. And you’ll see there are subcategories in the blue boxes which also further tag these videos to help the learner locate specific content. If we click one of them
1 minute Mike
You’ll see the video we selected, all the video tags associated with this content on the right, and usually, any pdfs or resources to go along with the video. Not all of them have resources If we’re interested in video about “Surgery” or “Nephrectomy” or “Local Therapy”, we can click under video categories to find more videos that meet our needs.
30 seconds Mike
And pull up the following videos. Can you see the branching happening and how the user navigates.
Question from Sarah: Can we make sure to tie in the “just like in your activities, not traditional (module 1, module 2), but branching, was what was important here.”
30 seconds Mike
If we think about deployment, one of the client requirements was mobile access. So with a mobile responsive site, content will display and adapt for the SmartPhone which is great in community practice with physicians on the go. (hold up SmartPhone) It can also be accessed as a traditional website. We came up with instructions for users to place an icon on their phone to access just like an “App” So no typing in the url anymore. And we watched people add it during the launch. And made some refinements to the direction by watching the user.
30 seconds Mike
If we think about deployment, one of the client requirements was mobile access. So with a mobile responsive site, content will display and adapt for the SmartPhone which is great in community practice with physicians on the go. (hold up SmartPhone) It can also be accessed as a traditional website. We came up with instructions for users to place an icon on their phone to access just like an “App” So no typing in the url anymore. And we watched people add it during the launch. And made some refinements to the direction by watching the user.
Anyone use any of these? 1 minute
Anyone use any of these? 1 minute
Anyone use any of these? 1 minute
Anyone use any of these? 1 minute
30 seconds Mike
If we think about deployment, one of the client requirements was mobile access. So with a mobile responsive site, content will display and adapt for the SmartPhone which is great in community practice with physicians on the go. (hold up SmartPhone) It can also be accessed as a traditional website. We came up with instructions for users to place an icon on their phone to access just like an “App” So no typing in the url anymore. And we watched people add it during the launch. And made some refinements to the direction by watching the user.
Anyone use any of these? 1 minute
Practical projects that are problematic with this reasoning