Re-inventing and Rebooting Moodle (with a Superhero theme). This was the deck I presented as a keynote at the 2016 iMoot.

1. #iMoot16
Presented at the iMoot 2016
Creative Commons CC BY License
Lewis Carr
“Re-inventing
and
Rebooting
Moodle”

2. Like the film industry, there comes a point
where we need to reboot something to appeal
to a new audience. We need to change the
perception of our Superhero.
To meet the needs of the modern learner, we
need to re-invent our Moodle Platform. This
presentation focusses on how we can go about
changing the cultural perception of Moodle By
changing the pedagogy.

3. Heroes eventually become
villains

5. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

6. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

7. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

8. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

9. Why Perceptions Change
The
comparisons we
make with other
websites
I need to
discover
something new

10. If we don’t
reinvent our own
Moodle
platforms, THEY
won’t be around
much longer.
There are new heroes waiting to take its place

11. HOW CAN WE CHANGE
PUBLIC PERCEPTION?
How can we re-invent or reboot our hero?
How can our hero become liked again?

13. What do
we
ACTUALLY
want to do
with
Moodle?
Are we
delivering
what our
learners
actually
want?
Rediscover our goals and
needs

14. change the culture.
Not the platform We need
evolution,
not
substitution

15. Meeting the needs of the
modern learner

16. take a
smartphone to
college every
single day

17. Watch online
video each day

18. Prefer to watch a
video rather than
read lots of text

19. Maximum video
Attention span

20. When asked what they want
from moodle...
Simple
facts and
revision
snippets Lots of
Practice
questions
A chance
to share &
discuss

21. Q. Are the ways
we use Moodle
and the tools
we choOse
relevant in
online learning
anymore?
All MY class
notes and
slides are
online!

22. When all other sites offer
this..
GAMIFication

23. Why do we offer this?

24. This rigid style of
teaching with
moodle is its
greatest
weakness
Like Kryptonite is to
Superman

26. “Design is about problem solving, not
about personal preference or
unsupported opinion”
Bob Baxley
Head of Product Design @ Pinterest

27. Design is an evolving process
http://chucks-fun.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/evolution-of-movie-batman.html

28. Back in
2007..
2015

29. 2007
2015

30. 2016

31. Course
Design
Theme Design
vs

38. Big colourful
customisable
Headers

39. Big colourful
customisable
Headers
Minimal
Navigation

40. Big colourful
customisable
Headers
Minimal
Navigation
Enrolment
Codes

41. Big colourful
customisable
Headers
Minimal
Navigation
Enrolment
Codes
Activity
Stream

42. A new theme does
not build better
courses.
We need to re-think
Our course delivery.
Themes are still subjective to Moodle’s grid-like structure and behaviour.

43. “Streams, scrolling content and search
are the best way to deliver content on
the web - think Twitter, Facebook,
ebay, LinkedIn”
Lewis Carr
(Someone who gets tired of people moaning
about scrolling in moodle)

45. Built with https://moqups.com

46. With just CSS... TO THIS

47. https://moodle.org/plugins/format_socialwall Chris Kenniburg, Bryan Smith, Andreas Wagner

48. I hadn’t
thought
of that!

49. GLOBAL Search is
the NEW
“Superpower”

50. COUPON
PLUGIN
https://moodle.org/plugins/block_coupon

52. Change the
Language
Pack
STUDY
COURSE
CLASS
MODULE
STUDENTS
LEARNERS
LMS/VLE
ENROL
ENROLL?
INVITE
Dashboard
ACTIVITIES
SAVE
Admin
TEACHER

66. IMPORTANT
Don’t try make
this model fit an
existing course
ThE new model is designed to inspire a new way of thinking

67. STOP USING
TOPICS/WEEKS/
MODULES
TAG ITEMS
INSTEAD
TAGS allow us to group our Learning objects

68. Now turn everything
else off in Moodle
HIDE Pointless Blocks, modules, Question
Types And anything else that creates
clutter & Confusion

69. LET GO OF YOUR ADMIN
CONTROL
Use roles to give power to the teacher
(Create Own courses, manage own students,
do pretty much anything OTHER than trash
the system

70. WILL THIS
CREATE MASS
PEDAGOGICAL
CHANGE?
AFTER MY
REBOOT, WILL
PERCEPTIONS
HAVE
CHANGED?
REBOOT COMPLETE

71. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

72. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

73. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

74. Our Perception of Moodle
has changed

75. End of Presentation
@lewiscarr