moodle development may 2011

Copyright 2011 © Martin Dougiamas CC BY-NC

Martin DougiamasMoodle Founder and Director

Moodle Pty Ltd

@moodler #mootca11


1. Who is using Moodle?2. How are they using it?3. What should Moodle do?4. What are we working on?


Current Statistics

54,000 registered verified sites in 212 countries(many more are not registered)

Registered sites contain 41 million users,4.4 million courses and 1.1 million teachers

Over 1500 sites have more than 10,000 users

97 language packs exist, 17 are complete

54 specialised Moodle Partners


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USA Spain Brazil UK Germany Mexico Portugal Australia Italy Columbia

54,000+ installations


Example schools


Example universities

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Example corporate users


2. Assess via Quizzes and Assignments

6. Combine the activities into sequences

Pedagogical progression

Publish content (Pages, SCORM, Video, Audio)

4. Wikis, Glossaries, Databases (collaboration/media)

5. Facilitate discussions in the Forum. Questions!

7. Introduce external sites, activities, games, networks

8. Use Survey tools and logs to study / reflect

9. Give students more power (structure/grades)

10. Research, custom code, communities of practice!

90% ?

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3. Provide a passive Forum


Revolutionary theories?

xkcd.com


Many people want an LMS like this:

• A private, secure place• Replicate/enforce traditional roles• Students seen as needing to gain

competencies and knowedge• Content is structured and “dumped”

on the students to be absorbed• Content is “pumped” out of the

students again and competencies assessed via Quizzes


But an LMS can also be like this:• A focussed community of practitioners• Everyone is a teacher and learner• Connected activities that use different

strategies to gather data, reuse it, analyse it, practice skills and so on.

• Integration with the rest of the internet• Content is gathered/produced by

the students continuously • Assessment takes place continuously

in a number of ways (everything is assessable), by all participants


And what about PLEs?


My PLE diagram

SchoolWork

Family and friends

Generic web services

PLE


Roadmap

SecurityUsability

AssessmentAccreditation-focussedDetailed ManagementTracking and ReportsPerformance/stability

Communication-based pedagogiesCommunity-developed modulesDrag and drop UIMobile platformsInnovative workflowsMore integrations with everythingMedia handling

Conservative Progressive


Growing core team


Institution B

New dev processesIntegration workflow in the tracker SCRUM-based development cycles for STABLE and DEV


Regular major releases

Version Release Official support until

Moodle 1.9 March 2008 July 2012

Moodle 2.0 December 2010 December 2011

Moodle 2.1 June 2010 June 2011





Copyright 2010 © Martin Dougiamas

Moodle 2.0

•Security•Performance •Media management•Integrations•Usability, Appearance•New Features


Improvements/Rewrites

• File storage and handling • Roles and enrolments• Messaging• Backup and Restore• Gradebook• Blocks and Layout• Themes / AJAX / Interface• Comments and Ratings• My Moodle• Customisable User Profile pages• Workshop / Chat / Lesson / Quiz• Wiki / SCORM / Resources• Database access / data handling

2.0

Major New Features

• Navigation• Community hubs• Repository support• Portfolio support• Completion• Conditional activities• Cohorts• Web services API• Secure RSS feeds • IMS CC• Blog associations and comments• External blog support• Translation engine


Modular platform

Aranda\Lasch, flickr.com


Moodle 2.0


Moodle 2.1 - 30/6/11

•Performance•Restore 1.9 backups•Quiz / question refactor•Paged course formats•Interface polishing•Official Mobile App


2.1 Quiz


Many Mobile Apps


Official Mobile App

•Task-Focussed•Touch screens only•Modular•Secure•Works offline


Upload

Official Mobile App


Participants

Official Mobile App


Messaging

Official Mobile App


Attendance

Official Mobile App


Official Mobile App

•iPhone•Android phone•iPad•Android tablets


2.2 and beyond

•Grading and Rubrics•Competency Tracking•Assignment•Forum•Survey (incl Feedback/Questionnaire)•Lesson•Scorm 2•Improved reporting•IMS LTI•IMS CC•etc


Other projects


Community Hubs

Institution B

Community Hub(Course list)


Institution B


Contributed Plugins

•Versions•Official Reviews•Downloads•Moodle integration•Statistics•Compatibility•Communication


Moodle Docs

•Admin and teachers combined into one “User” manual

•One wiki per release

•Separate Developer wiki,reference manual

•Templates

•Update processes, addmore non-volunteers


Moodle web sites


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