Moodle Development Educause Australia 6th May 2009 (edaust09)

Martin DougiamasLead Moodler

Executive Director, Moodle Pty Ltd

Using open source to support education

Copyright 2009 © Martin Dougiamas

History

1999 0.0 First prototype versions

11 / 2001 0.9 First pre-release version on the web

8 / 2002 1.0 Forum, Survey, Journal, Resources, Quiz...

8 / 2003 1.1 Backups, Workshop, Chat, Scales...

3 / 2004 1.2 Filters, Groups, Glossary, Lesson ...

5 / 2004 1.3 Calendar, Blocks, RSS, Media plugins ...

8 / 2004 1.4 Installer, Resources, Enrolments, Wiki...

6 / 2005 1.5 XHTML, Themes, Blocks, Gradebook ...

6 / 2006 1.6 Unicode, Database, Docs, Blogs, Reports ..

11 / 2006 1.7 Roles, Admin, Oracle and MSSQL, AJAX ..

3 / 2007 1.8 Accessibility, MNet, Forms, Multi-auth...

3 / 2008 1.9 Gradebook, Outcomes, Performance, Tags, Notes..

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Waitfor it!2.0


Open Source Software

Free to downloadFree to useFree to explore, modify and extendFree to distribute (under GPL)

Free to help with development Free to choose your service supplier Free to make money from it Free to use something else!

And you are...


Statistics

Over 54,000 registered verified sites in 209 countries

Registered sites contain over 31 million users,2.8 million courses and 1.8 million teachers

469 sites have more than 10,000 users(OU has 3590 courses and 452,483 users)

Interface translated into 75 languages

42 specialised Moodle Partners


There are over 600,000 registered participants in the Moodle Community at moodle.org

(about 1000 new accounts being created each day)

Community roles

Source: Moodle Community 2008

Teachers35.0%

System Admins22.0%

Educational Admins16.0%

Researchers11.0%

Software Devs8.0%

Other8.0%


Moodle Forums


Moodle Docs


Tracker


Tracker


Moodle Tracker

tracker.moodle.org

Bugreports Ideas

Votes andComments

QualityCode InformationPriorities


Moodle Moots


What drives Moodle requests?


Key Drivers

Integration

Pedagogy

Control

Administration

Usability

Open Web


Administration

Create/remove courses

Create/remove users and roles

Move people in and out

Manage activities within courses

Structure the site (courses, blocks, etc)

Administration Integrations Usability Open Web Control Pedagogy


Web Services

Moodle Core Functions

External Client Application

SOAP

XML-RPC

REST

AMF

External Server Application



Integrations

Pull content into Moodle

Push content out of Moodle

Exchange users and courses with other systems (SIS, HR)

Blend with institution web sites

Blend with open web sites and services

Remote control of Moodle

Alternative interfaces such as Flash, iPhone, etc



Repositories

MoodleFiles

Almost any other content

repository



Portfolios

MoodleFiles and Pages

Almost any other content

repository



Usability

Consistent navigation

Consistent layout and structure

Beautiful themes

No dead ends

Plenty of AJAX where appropriate

Testing on real users

Accessible on a wide range of devices



Navigation



Navigation



Navigation



Gradebook

Usability

Roles



Open Web

Hundreds of other ICT tools out there

Encourage mashups inside and outside Moodle

Duplicate functionality where required inside Moodle



Messaging



Google Integration

Moodle users are automatically created in Google AppsLog in to Moodle -> logged in to Google AppsGmail block in Moodle shows recent Gmail messagesApps block show links to all the Google AppsGoogle Widget shows a link to Moodle on iGoogle and Gmail etc



Control

Any CMS/LMS/VLE is a system of control

Many educators want to increase their control

Others want to give more control to students

Conditional activities

Individual permissions

Privacy restrictions

General security



Improved roles?



Conditional activities



Pedagogy

1. Publish some content (Resource, SCORM)2. Have a passive Forum3. Use Quizzes/Assignments (less management)4. Use Wiki, Glossary, Database (collab content)5. Facilitate active discussions in the Forum6. Combine the activities into sequences 7. Introduce external activities and games8. Use peer-review modules like Workshop9. Use Survey tools and logs to study / reflect

10. Share ideas, active research, communities!



Case studies

School of Independent and Distance Education

Bold Park Community School

demo.moodle.org competition

Yours! We love them, especially when theyproduce recommendations!



Community Hubs

Institution B

Teacher producing coursesTeacher using courses

Community Hub

User info User info

Interactionwith studentsInteraction

with studentsInteractionwith peers

Interactionwith peers

Institution BInstitution A

Read fromRepository

Write to Repository

Community Directory

Registration



Major Rewriting•Database access / data handling•File storage and handling •Roles and enrolments•Wiki 2.0 •Messaging•Backups•Gradebook and Roles•Navigation and Blocks•Themes•Text formats•Commenting•Javascript handling•Lesson 2.0•Workshop 2.0

2.0

Major New Features•Repository integration•Portfolio integration•Conditional activities•Course completion •Progress Tracking•Feedback module•Blog 2.0 •Site-wide groups •Secure RSS feeds •Web Services•IMS CC•Community Hubs•Totally flexible user fields


We need your help!

docs.moodle.org/en/Roadmap

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Navigation_2.0

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Navigation_2.0


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