The Growing Trend of Open Source in eLearning
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View the Webinar Recording here: http://hubs.ly/y0RhnT0 Open source technologies are spreading their way through learning communities to deliver products that are superior, more secure, and less costly. From textbooks, to tutoring services, to open-learning university models, more people are gaining access to high-quality learning and talent development opportunities. In this webinar we hone in on why leading organizations like Google, McDonalds and the US Department of Defense are choosing open source technologies to meet, and even exceed, their business objectives. Watch this webinar for a keen understanding of how open source learning technologies will strengthen your organization, and more specifically, your learning and talent development departments. Watch the webinar to learn more about: • The growing trend of open source in learning technologies • The top 5 benefits of open source technologies used in eLearning today • The benefits of using an open source learning management system • Case studies of leading organizations who use an open source LMS • The ROI of an Open Source LMS
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The Growing Trend of Open Source in eLearning
- 1. Presenters: Brent Harvey & Sean Hougan The Growing Trend of Open Source in eLearning E M P O W E R T A L E N T
- 2. Sean Hougan Learning Design Specialist Brent Harvey Sales & Marketing VP Your Hosts
- 3. Totara & Moodle are 80% more cost effective Managed cloud hosting reduces your IT operating costs by more than 40% Over 12 years of experience and 600 customer implementations Lambda: Cloud Learning Management Experts
- 4. Your in Good Company
- 5. Today’s Topics 1. What is Open Source? A Brief History. 2. Why Leading Organizations Choose Open Source 3. The 4 Fastest Growing Open Source Learning Technologies 4. Bringing Open Source eLearning to your Organization 5. Q&A
- 8. “In production and development, open source as a development model promotes a universal access via a free license to a product's design or blueprint, and universal redistribution of that design or blueprint, including subsequent improvements to it by anyone” What is Open Source (Software)? Source: opensource.org
- 9. Brief History of Open Source Software 1980 UseNet 1983 GNU Project 1989 386BSD 1991 Linux 1993 Red Hat 1994 MySQL 1996 Apache 1998 Netscape 2004 Ubuntu Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/15/the-9-most-important-events-in-open-source-history/
- 10. Why Leading Organizations Choose Open? Flexible, ownership, freedom to innovate, ease of customization, no vendor lock-in, your choice, support from a global community OPEN SOURCE LEARNING
- 11. Four Fastest Growing Open Source Learning Technologies: 1. Open Source Education Resources (OERs) 2. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) 3. Open Badges 4. Open Source Learning Management Systems (LMS) Open Source Learning Technologies
- 12. • UNESCO: Freely accessible, openly licensed documents and media useful for teaching, learning, accessing and researching Textbooks Learning guides & workbooks Videos and audio recordings Courses Open Source Education Resources (OERs)
- 13. “A textbook licensed under open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.” Open Text Books
- 14. • A massive open online course with the goal to provide quality and accessible education to all • MOOCs contain: 1. Filmed Lectures 2. Readings 3. Problem Sets 4. Interactive Forums MOOCS
- 15. • Digital badge: an online record that identifies your achievements • Open badge: • Allows learners to gain badges from multiple credible organizations • Can be displayed wherever and with whomever online Open Badges
- 16. Poll Question 2
- 17. • A learning management system (LMS) is a software application for the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting and delivery e- learning education courses or training programs. • Organizations such as Moodle and Totara LMS have created an LMS with open source code Open Source Learning Management Systems
- 18. Moodle: Market Leader • 54,000 registered Moodle sites • 68 million users worldwide • Robust open-source platform • Supported by a global community—138 Million forum posts • Over 500 plugins • Highly flexible
- 19. • Benefit from the powerful backbone of Moodle with additional features tailored for corporate eLearning – Hierarchies – Audiences – Competencies – Learning Plans – Performance Management – Performance Review/Appraisals Totara LMS for Corporate eLearning
- 20. Poll Question 3
- 21. Poll Question 4
- 22. • Please ask questions in the chat box Questions
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Editor's Notes
- A little bit about Lambda – our background is in Cloud Learning Management and we are full service organization headquartered in Vancouver, BC. We specialize in open source learning management systems like Moodle and Totara Both Learning Management Systems are feature rich and most importantly – they are 80% more cost effective when you match leading competitors in the market today making them one of the fastest growing technologies in our space. And as experts in eLearning and implementing the platform that we have found reduces IT operating costs by more than 40%. We have over 600 deployments under our belt that have allowed us to soak up industry best practices and pass them onto you. Like today’s webinar topic!
- Your in good company with companies that use our technology like Google, Safeway and Four Seasons that use open source learning management systems like Totara One company that we would like to highlight is Step Energy Services, an oil and gas field services company located in Western Canada. STEP Energy uses Lambda’s hosting platform and services with the Totara Open Source Learning Management System They have said that using Totara has given them an an incredible response from our professionals, exec team and management. Managers are loving the reporting and ability to check out their teams training records. STEP is also developing more engaging online courses to have on the system via Micro Learning, quick little 2-3 minute online courses that relate to safety hazards and all types of topics. I just returned from ATD in Orlando and this was a very hot topic.
- What are we talking about today? First off, let’s give you some background into open source. Then let’s talk about why organizations are gravitating to using open solutions Then we will highlight the four fastest growing open source learning technologies in the market today And finally we will talk about how to bring this technology to your organization with Lambda I expect that the total presentation to be around 30 minutes with time for questions and answers at the end. Feel free to ask questions throughout using the chat window and don’t forget this is being recorded and we will send the deck and slides in the next 48 hours.
- So what is open source?? Open source originated as a term in computer software development but today really is an entire movement. Today the term open source reflects a set of values that promote open exchange, collaborative participation, rapid prototyping, transparency and community development. More importantly, we are seeing companies adopt open source technology and force vendors to make their solutions and platform open. Today we will be focusing in on open source software and technologies in learning and training which are making massive strides in how we learn at work, at school and at home. From this perspective open source software has two main components: Universal access via a free license to the products code Universal redistribution of that source including subsequent improvements from a community
- The concept of OpenSource has been around for some time and really started in 1980 with UseNet. Back in the early 90’s OpenSource really got it’s mark with the start of Linux and gained massive attention with the wall street launch of Red Hat into the market. Today, open source is widely adopted and used in the market place by organizations and companies globally.
- It is the fastest growing spaces in technology because it allows an organization: Ownership, Portability to move and reduced risk because there is no licensing agreement. You are not threatened by being “locked in” to a vendor. Flexibility to innovate or add features and you can build it to suit your business. Stability and security as it is backed by thousands of developers and it is open to scrutiny. Many people think that open source has security holes but the opposite is true in this case as it is open to anyone to look for vulnerabilities. AND Open source is typically closest to what the customer wants as it is written by the customer/community not a product manager – it is born from customer need. I guarantee you are using open source in your life today – browsers like Firefox and chrome are open source solutions along with android which is used on millions of phones today. And we are using systems that are run on open source operating systems, databases, and other technology. Open source is so prevalent that you are even seeing Microsoft enter this space – the logo above is for their “Openness” project where they are working on connecting to many open source technologies and solutions. So what about the specifics for the learning space? Let’s check out what we are talking about today.
- The concept of open source has spread to education resources to provide free and open learning tools to teachers and students OERs can come in the form of textbooks, learning guides and workbooks, video/audio recordings and course (or MOOCs) Conferences are popping up all over to push the adoption of OERs because there is a huge opportunity to make education less costly and more relevant for students around the globe Here in Vancouver there will be the Open Education Conference in November, guaranteed that a quick google search will help you find one in your area Today we will discuss open textbooks and Moocs as they are the two OERs that are quickly adopting Next we will describe why they are adopting so quickly
- According to the Economist, textbook prices have increased by 3 time the amount of consumer prices since the 1970’s 65% of students have not purchased a textbook for a course due to price Open textbooks make it more affordable for students to purchase textbooks A textbook licensed under an open copyright license, and made available online enables teachers and students to access high-quality textbooks for free Why does this benefit teachers? They can customize and contextualize open textbooks to fit their pedagogical needs. Don’t reinvent the wheel! Think about the amount of wasted time and resources doing work that already has been done. Innovation in learning will increase one iteration at a time. Where can you find Open textbooks? Many organizations are popping up such as OER Commons and Openstax college These organizations are both non-profit organizations that provide peer-reviewed and high-quality open textbooks OER Commons takes it a step beyond open textbooks to provide audio lecture, games, simulations, video lectures, labs and much more
- MOOC stands for massive open online course MOOCs are typically free and used in both corporate and education environments Becoming increasingly popular for MOOC companies to partner with large organizations in order to create training which provides prospective employees with tangible and needed skills Some examples of growing MOOC companies include: Future Learn (UK provider of free, open and online courses) Coursera (For-profit educational technology company that offers MOOCS from Ivey league universities in the US) While course are free, profits are generated from verified certificates for employers iTunesU – similar principal connecting students and educatorrs EdX (US based company partnered with world leading universities to offer MOOCS, many of them free of charge) At the Association of Talent Development show in Orlando this year, I noticed another trend where content seems to be King for many people in our industry. There are many providers in the news like our partners the latest big press with Linkedin’s purchase of Lynda. There are many others that are prevalent like OpenSesame, BlueBottle, Vapo and more. The commercialization of this space is going to drive the need and demand for MOOC’s even futher into the marketplace.
- Learning management systems like Totara allows organizations to issue open badges and provides a display functionality. Why is this a big deal? Badges are a simple but very effective way of accrediting learning. The badge, in essence a digital certification, permanently links back to the issuing organization. It is issued to a learner and reveals core information such as the issuing authority, contact details, date undertaken, learning activity, evidence of achievement, and date of expiry if appropriate. Therefore, the badge can always be validated and verified. Just ask your HR department how badges would benefit workplace learning. They will be ecstatic. Any employer who has gone through the pain of education verification checks will be elated. From a learner's perspective, this is so much better than lengthy paper-work trails to find long-lost certifications. Totara is one of the first LMSs to support this innovative technology. If you are running a corporate training program there are a number of benefits to using Badges that not only provide a level of gamification for your learner, they allow for promotion of your brand and organization.
- eLearning and using an LMS is an incredible fast growing area of the market – Bersin estimates that this market will approach 52B by 2017. There are a number of open source learning managements systems in the marketplace like Sakai, Moodle and Totara. Today we will focus on our partners, Moodle and Totara.
- Moodle has been around for a number of years Has close to 20% market share and known as a household brand in the marketpace With almost 70 million users – it is extremely popular in education and corporate learning The flexibility includes over 500 plug-ins that extend the functionaltity much like an app on an smartphone.
- And Totara is the other fastest growing LMS in the market. Totara is a version of Moodle that we like to refer to as Moodle for Business. Totara extends the functionality of Moodle adds in: Represent your world with flexible Hierarchies Hierarchies store your company’s entire organization and job structure, so you can manage learning, drill down within reports, and control access to reporting data. Browse, search, and select from these hierarchies to define audiences, assign certifications and programs. Or Connect to your HR system and get your hierarchies updated automatically each day. Skills and Competencies Frameworks - making it simple to build competency based learning programs in Totara Map these to positions, organizations, and courses. Competencies automatically appear in learning plans to users assigned to those positions and organizations. Link courses to competencies to automatically populate learning plans. Managing performance Powerful tools to manage employee performance. Conduct appraisals Discussion, feedback and analysis between managers and employees Align performance with personal and company goals If your interested in Compentency based models – check out our two part guide under resources on our website.
- Plugins Modify Open source code You have the ability to tailor your open source LMS so that it meets the look and feel of your organizations branding. Additionally, open source coding allows you to modify your system to meet your exact specifications.
- Always cost a fraction of the cost to leading competitors like SABA and SumTotal with comparable features Open source LMS do not require licensing fees, so the money you save can go where it is really needed, for things like hosting, and implementation. Research shows that going open source will reduce costs by up to 80%. They are always growing an improving with a community of global developers
- Open source solutions are more secure than proprietary solutions because there is a large user base of global developers who can respond to security and bug fixes in a matter of days rather than months.