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Enriching the learning experience through

interactive course content

Kyle Goslin Markus Hofmann

Overview What we do

Course content filter using metadata

Visual map tool for Moodle

Deaf studies lecture presentation tool

What we do Over the last number of years we have been

developing Moodle plugins for a wide variety of tasks.

Main aim of our research is to enrich the learning

experience of users

Moodle related research and development has been on

going for a number of years at the Institute of

Technology Blanchardstown.

Today you can see 3 of the plugins we developed!

Course content filter using

metadata

Aim: Allow educator to tag learning objects that can be

dynamically filtered by the learner

Solution: Add a filter to the top of the course page


metadata

Some learners do not want to see all of the learning

objects at the same time.

The scroll of death causing problems - (we’ve seen

some nice solutions yesterday!)


metadata


metadata

Things do not always work out as we would have

wished.

Although a very nice tool, one main draw back is that

additional fields need to be added into the editing

process to allow the learning objects to be tagged.

Works really well with a defined set of resource that

you know will be added. E.g. HTML Page / Files / text

page

Visual Map Tool for Moodle

Aim: We wanted to find a way to visualize the learning

objects on a Moodle course page.

Solution: Create a flash based visual map tool for

Moodle.


Learners, especially those with learning difficulties find

visualization to be very useful.

Visual mapping tool have exist, but none that allow for

resources to be easily mapped.

Two Modes:

Simple Viewer mode for students

Editing mode for educators


All available resources on the course page become

blocks in visual map tool.

Simple grouping of blocks.

Simple XML based structure created and then parsed

to generate the visual map.

Allows for customization of colours.

Custom text for groupings.

Deaf studies lecture presentation

plugin

Aim: Create a presentation tool that allowed the

educator to display signed video content and marked

up lecture content at the same time.

Solution: Simple Moodle plugin with embedded

Jwplayer in a lecture based format

Deaf studies lecture presentation

plugin

Collaboration between the Institute of Technology

Blanchardstown and the Trinity College school for the

Deaf.

Simple tool was need to allow signed video content to

be displayed along with course notes

A simple lecture based format where each lecture

contains a number of individual pages.

Questions Comments?

All our projects are available for demo at:

• If you are interested in the source to any project, we can

make that available! (GNU License)

• White papers also online