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
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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
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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
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Moodle enrollments
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