Moodling Forward: Resourcing Innovation

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Moodling forward: resourcing innovation

Karen VisserAssoc. Director, Academic Support and Client Services

Division of Information, ANU<[email protected]>

Alan ArnoldProgram Leader, Teaching Technologies & Environments

Teaching & Learning Centre, University of Canberra<[email protected]>

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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?

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What does the international ed-tech community think is on the horizon?


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

http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/


• 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/

1 Year or Less: Electronic Books

http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/

http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/ebook_elearning_ipad/


1 Year or Less: Mobile Devices• mPage and mBook for iPad

mPage.hk and mbooks.hk

• mTouch for iPhone & MS Windows www.pragmasql.com/home/pragmatouch.aspx

• Moodle4iphones project iphone.moodle.com.auwww.youtube.com/moodle4iphoneWE’RE LOOKING AT THESE NOW

BUT WHERE’S THE MOBILE PEDAGOGY?

http://mPage.hk/

http://mbooks.hk/

http://www.pragmasql.com/home/pragmatouch.aspx

http://www.pragmasql.com/home/pragmatouch.aspx

http://iphone.moodle.com.au/

http://www.youtube.com/moodle4iphone


• Second Life (SL) + Moodle = Sloodle www.sloodle.org– Link students’ SL avatars to their Moodle user accounts.– participate in SL chats using the Moodle chatroom– 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

2–3 Years: Simple Augmented Reality

http://www.sloodle.org/


• 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)

2–3 Years: Open Content

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http://gov2.net.au/


Cost-(time)effective OERs 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 patch

tinyurl.com/uclapublicprivate

http://hub.moodle.org/

http://tinyurl.com/uclapublicprivate


learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1318

wikiversity.org/wiki/Psychology_102

http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au/course/view.php?id=1318

http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Psychology_102


We’re looking at this for 2.0


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

http://connect.educause.edu/wiki/Learning_Environments


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


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


Our most critical investment is in …

You!

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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?

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