Limits in developing innovative pedagogy

with Moodle: The story of BIM

David Jones

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1. Show and tell of BIM

2. Identify some limitations to innovative pedagogy

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BAM

Into

Moodle Activity module for Moodle

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Blog

Aggregation

Management

BAM

Into

Moodle

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A Webfuse tool (2006-2009)

(Jones and Luck, 2009)

BAM

- 26 offerings, 7 courses

- 2790+ students

- 20,000+ blog posts

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Students create and register blogs/feeds

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They answer questions (or not)

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BIM aggregates/mirrors the student posts

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BIM “allocates” posts to questions

Unallocated Submitted

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BIM shows students what it knows about their posts

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BIM provides teaching staff with management interface

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BIM integrates with Moodle gradebook

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BIM generates OPML feed for staff

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Concreteexperience

ReflectiveObservation

Abstracthypothesis

Activetesting

Kolb’s learning cycle

Reflection/meta-cognition

(Social)Constructionism

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Connectivism

Escapingclosed gardens

(Kim, 2010)

“building literacies”(Moyle, 2010)

(Siemens, 2005)

(Papert&Harel, 1991)

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Coordinator

Student

Marker

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The “grammar of school”

(Papert, 1995)

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http://tpack.org

Limited knowledge

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Limited knowledge

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Inappropriate technology

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Inappropriate technology

General versus specific

LMS Features

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Inappropriate technology

General versus specific

Implement “Vanilla”

LMS Features

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Inappropriate technology

General versus specific

Implement “Vanilla”

LMS Features

Low levels abstraction

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Big upfront design

Inappropriate technology

General versus specific

Implement “Vanilla”

LMS Features

Low levels abstraction

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Papert, S. (1995). Why School Reform is Impossible. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(4), 417-427.

Papert, S., &Harel, I. (1991). Constructionism. New York City: Ablex Publishing Corporation.

Moyle, K. (2010). Building innovation: learning with technologies. Camberwell, Australia: Australian Council for Educational Research.

Kim, J. (2010, 6 April, 2010). 11 ideas about which I may be wrong. Retrieved 13 April, 2010, from here

Siemens, G. (2005). Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2(1).

Angelo, T., & Cross, K. (1993). Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (2nd ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.