advantages of an open lms: tying the world to moodle

Advantages of an Open LMS: Tying the World to Moodle

Keith LandaMoodleMoot @ SUNY Delhi

23 May 2011

http://purchase.academia.edu/KeithLanda http://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa

Overview

• Purchase College• Moodle & open source at Purchase• Examples

– E-portfolios– Use of video– Library integrations

Background

Liberal Arts and Sciences plus Arts Conservatories

~4200 FTE

Web enhancement of F2F coursesDevelopment of online programming

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

Costs- No licensing costs- Similar support costs

Integration- Other systems- Web 2.0 world

Flexible open architecture

Why @ Purchase?

Risk management- Risks of open source- Commercial products have different risks

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

StudentInformation

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LibraryInformation

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AcademicAnalytics

CampusRepository

The View from 30,000 Feet

LiveClassroom

E-portfolios

“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“Collect, select, reflect” and share (access control)

Resume building Social networking

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

StudentInformation

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AcademicAnalytics

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LiveClassroom

Video @ Purchase

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

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

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

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

Campus lessons - Kaltura

• Good feature set• Developer/support community

VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/

VoiceThread – Moodle integrations

• Company developed• Basic level: VoiceThread filter for Moodle• Site-wide level

– SSO between Moodle & VoiceThread– VoiceThread resource type– VoiceThread assignment type

StudentInformation

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LibraryInformation

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AcademicAnalytics

CampusRepository

LiveClassroom

StudentInformation

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LibraryInformation

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AcademicAnalytics

CampusRepository

Moodle enrollments

Librarian roles

Course reserves

Senior projects

Library reserves

• Moodle block to mediate interaction between faculty, library and students in course

• Request reserve materials• Faculty and librarian dashboard

StudentInformation

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AcademicAnalytics

CampusRepository

Moodle enrollments

Librarian roles

Course reserves

Senior projects

StudentInformation

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LibraryInformation

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AcademicAnalytics

CampusRepository

LiveClassroom

Questions?

Keith Landakeith.landa@purchase.edu

http://openscholar.purchase.edu/keith_landa