Opening up and enhancing Moodle books with GitHub,

ePub, etc. David Jones, @djplaner

http://bit.ly/omgmbook

Why?

What?

What next?

Opening up and enhancing Moodle books with GitHub,

ePub, etc. David Jones, @djplaner

http://bit.ly/omgmbook

Why?

What?

What next?

Content

Learning activities

Content

Set Text Book

3 years x 400 students per year x $107.95 = $129,540

* - these numbers are pretty dodgy

*

Content

Course Content

Orientation learning path

Week 1 learning path

Completed

Moodle

books

Table of contents Turn the

page

Demotion of course menu

Process

Product

This project will develop a framework –“a collection of technologies, processes and practices”

Content

2400+ Moodle community forum posts

Initial coding of ~250

43

Navigation/Interface

33

Export/import

15

Printing

13

Integrating activities into the book

6 Page visibility

3 Version control

# of books 73# of chapters 673

Search Moodle booksExport to mobile devices

Version control

Open up Moodle books

Students USQ staffTeachersBroader community

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Opening up and enhancing Moodle books with GitHub,

ePub, etc. David Jones, @djplaner

http://bit.ly/omgmbook

Why?

What?

What next?

Opening up and enhancing Moodle books with GitHub,

ePub, etc. David Jones, @djplaner

http://bit.ly/omgmbook

Why?

What?

What next?

Tech

Practice

GitHub tool: improve and contributeExplore ePub export requirements

USQ

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Integrate & transform personal and beyondComplete analysis of Moodle community discussionSurvey Moodle book authors: USQ & beyond

GitHub tool: installed on Study DeskBook search: What happened?Book: How to bring up to date?

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Open is a necessary, but not sufficient condition

we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we

will be able to interact with the richness of living information—not merely in the passive way that we have become

accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process

(Licklider & Taylor, 1968)

we believe that we are entering a technological age in which we

will be able to interact with the richness of living information—not merely in the passive way that we have become

accustomed to using books and libraries, but as active participants in an ongoing process

Problematically, textbooks are so deeply ingrained in our education systems that trying to find others ways of doing

education for many is very difficultRarely will you ever find a faculty member who says

they have enough time to do their job, let alone undertake a radical overhaul of their pedagogy.http://clintlalonde.net/2015/11/23/the-open-future-is-here-its-just-not-evenly-distributed/

Opening up and enhancing Moodle books with GitHub,

ePub, etc. David Jones, @djplaner

http://bit.ly/omgmbook

Questions?

Licklider, J. C. ., & Tayler, R. W. (1968). The computer as a communication device. Science and Technology, 72(2), 1–3.

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