presentation by Alan Arnold and Karen Visser for the Canberra Moodleposium, October 7-8, 2010

1. Moodling forward: resourcing innovation Karen Visser Assoc. Director, Academic Support and Client Services Division of Information, ANU <karen.visser@anu.edu.au> Alan Arnold Program Leader, Teaching Technologies & Environments Teaching & Learning Centre, University of Canberra <alan.arnold@canberra.edu.au> moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 1 cc licensed flickr photo by DanAllison: http://flickr.com/photos/integraldan/280740113/

2. The 2011 budget process is upon us If you were asked to provide evidence that last year’s project funds for new technology resulted in change for the better, before this year’s project funding were allocated, what would you say? 2 What does the international ed-tech community think is on the horizon? cc licensed flickr photo by dullhunk: http://flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/330243018/ moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010

3. 2010 Horizon Reportwp.nmc.org/horizon2010/ Time-to-Adoption Horizon: < 1 Year Electronic Books Mobile Devices Time-to-Adoption Horizon: 2–3 Years Augmented Reality Open Content Time-to-Adoption Horizon: 4–5 Years Gesture-Based Computing Visual Data Analysis 3 moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010

4. IMS Common Cartridge www.imsglobal.org/cc/ a standard way to represent digital course materials for use in on-line learning systems so that such content can be developed in one format and used across a wide variety of learning systems to enable new publishing models for on-line course materials and digital books that are modular, web-distributed, interactive, and customizable Moodle Book module & ePub format for eBookseg “Making e-Books for e-Learning on i-Pads”www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/ebook_elearning_ipad/ moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 4 1 Year or Less: Electronic Books

5. 1 Year or Less: Mobile Devices 5 moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 mPage and mBook for iPadmPage.hk and mbooks.hk mTouch for iPhone & MS Windows www.pragmasql.com/home/pragmatouch.aspx Moodle4iphones project iphone.moodle.com.auwww.youtube.com/moodle4iphone WE’RE LOOKING AT THESE NOWBUT WHERE’S THE MOBILE PEDAGOGY?

6. Second Life (SL) + Moodle = Sloodlewww.sloodle.org Link students’ SL avatars to their Moodle user accounts. participate in SL chats using the Moodlechatroom Assess in SL then grade in Moodle vote (and see results) in SL as well as in Moodle write notes directly into to your Moodle blog from SL author SL slide presentations and web-pages on Moodle Gaming & Virtual field trips Simulation eg ANU College of Law virtual Law Firm moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 6 2–3 Years: Simple Augmented Reality

7. All Australian universities are, or will soon be, grappling with Openness tensions The Government 2.0 agenda gov2.net.au will encourage open licensed publicly-funded outputs - as do ARC, NHMRC! Sen. Kate Lundy’s #publicsphere Are your teaching materials publicly-funded? The University conversation usually ends up at “benefits versus risks & costs” The major costs will be staff time & culture change, so how to do this efficiently? ACODE54 workshop at Massey University NZ on Open Educational Resources (OER) 7 moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 2–3 Years: Open Content cc licensed flickr photos by ziofabio: http://flickr.com/photos/ziofabio/3138351581/and by laihiu: http://flickr.com/photos/laihiu/290630500/

8. Cost-(time)effectiveOERs from Moodle Make your entire Moodle course available as an Open Educational Resource Moodle with guest access as a platform in the Cloud eg James Neill’s open UC courses on Wikiversity moodle.org Open Community Hub (mooch)hub.moodle.org/ Make bits of your Moodle course available as an Open Educational Resource UCLA’s Public/Private patchtinyurl.com/uclapublicprivate 8 moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010

9. moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 9 learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1318 wikiversity.org/wiki/Psychology_102

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11. moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 11 We’re looking at this for 2.0

12. If we want technologies which … Support learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation. Develop 21st-century literacies among students and faculty (information, digital, and visual). Encourage faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT. http://connect.educause.edu/wiki/Learning_Environments moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 12

13. What do we need to consider to achieve these aspirations? Providing tools and services that: connect and support learning communities enrich learning experiences can be used flexibly, are adaptable and with longevity empower the learner to learn for themselves improve student performance connect to, and don’t preclude, external learning options moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 13

14. What do we need to consider to achieve these aspirations? Balancing the benefits / needs / wants Our stakeholders – is the focus of development on teaching and/or learning? Of the few innovators or the many laggards? Diagnostics as a window to student learning & difficulties moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 14

15. Our most critical investment is in … You! moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 15 cc licensed flickr photo by Lone_f: http://flickr.com/photos/parfeniukas/321581790/

16. Moodling forward: resourcing innovation Does your institution fund the few or the many? Are learners more important stakeholders than teachers? In a “zero sum game” do you fund tools or people? Should diagnostics lead development? moodleposium Canberra 7-8 Oct., 2010 16 cc licensed flickr photo by DanAllison: http://flickr.com/photos/integraldan/280740113/