Keith Landa: Advantages of an Open LMS: Tying the World To Moodle

Advantages of an Open LMS: Tying the World to Moodle : Advantages of an Open LMS: Tying the World to Moodle Keith Landa MoodleMoot @ SUNY Delhi 23 May 2011 http://purchase.academia.edu/KeithLanda http://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa

Overview : Overview Purchase College Moodle & open source at Purchase Examples E-portfolios Use of video Library integrations

Background : Background Liberal Arts and Sciences plus Arts Conservatories ~4200 FTE Web enhancement of F2F courses Development of online programming

Slide 4 : Focus on teaching & learning - Robust set of activities & resources - Add-on modules from the community - Moodle development pathway

Moodle & open source @ Purchase : Moodle & open source @ Purchase Not first app Moodle decision & campus climate Open source decisions Self-host v. vendor hosting Plain vanilla v. customization (community, hacks) Consumer v. producer Moodle core for Purchase suite

Slide 6 : Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository The View from 30,000 Feet Live Classroom

Slide 7 : E-portfolios

Slide 8 : “Mahoodle” Single sign-on Mahara assignment in Moodle Adoption process for Mahara Why e-portfolios? Tool to showcase student/faculty work? Tool to support student learning? Tool to collect institutional data? http://mahara.org

Mahara overview : Mahara overview “Collect, select, reflect” and share (access control) Resume building Social networking

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Campus lessons - Mahara : Campus lessons - Mahara Adoption slower than with Moodle Less faculty interest Stealth adoption Planned work with Career Services Stronger tie to Moodle 2.0 Repositories Focus on tool for student learning Constraints on student showcase uses Constraints on harvesting institutional data

Slide 12 : Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Live Classroom

Slide 13 : Video @ Purchase

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Faculty use of video in Moodle : Faculty use of video in Moodle YouTube resources very popular Moodle multimedia filter Embedding other video sites Web video not sufficient Privacy, copyright needs Video uploads to Moodle 150 MB limit per file Course backups in the multi-GB range

Slide 16 : Commercial/community hybrid http://corp.kaltura.com/ http://www.kaltura.org/

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Kaltura-Moodle integration : Kaltura-Moodle integration Video resource Media added to Kaltura through Moodle Upload bypasses Moodle (file size issues) Playback controls Video assignment type Student submitted videos Video sequencing tools: content bank, timeline, transitions

Streaming video rights : Streaming video rights Librarian role in obtaining streaming rights Direct access to Kaltura publisher dashboard Upload &transcode video Schedule availability Provide embed code for Moodle courses

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Campus lessons - Kaltura : Campus lessons - Kaltura Good feature set Developer/support community

VoiceThread : VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/

VoiceThread – Moodle integrations : VoiceThread – Moodle integrations Company developed Basic level: VoiceThread filter for Moodle Site-wide level SSO between Moodle &VoiceThread VoiceThread resource type VoiceThread assignment type

Slide 26 : Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Live Classroom

Slide 27 : Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Moodle enrollments Librarian roles Course reserves Senior projects

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Library reserves : Library reserves Moodle block to mediate interaction between faculty, library and students in course Request reserve materials Faculty and librarian dashboard

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Slide 35 : Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Moodle enrollments Librarian roles Course reserves Senior projects

Slide 36 : Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Live Classroom

Questions? : Questions? Keith Landa keith.landa@purchase.edu http://openscholar.purchase.edu/keith_landa