knowledge management in moodle
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Presentation to UK Moodle Moot 08 about using Moodle to support knowledge management in schools.TRANSCRIPT
Knowledge Management in Moodle
MoodleMoot 0725th October 2007The Open University, Milton Keynes
Miles BerryHead, Alton Convent Prep
Outline• Learning environments
• Knowledge
• Managing knowledge
• Organizing• Sharing• Creating
• VLEs and knowledge management
• Moodle and knowledge management
Knowing that
• Explicit
• Subject knowledge
• Test scores
• Outcomes
Knowing how
• Tacit
• Teaching methods
• Personality
• Processes
Epistemology• Empiricism
• Experience as the only source of knowledge
• Rationalism
• Reason as the foundation
• Constructivism
• Knowledge is contingent on convention, human perception and social experience
“In the information society, knowledge forms the
foundation for education and culture.”
Smith and Wild, 2001
Knowledge Mapping
“For the majority of firms in the west, the priorities are the ‘capture’ of employees’ knowledge, exploitation of
existing knowledge resources or assets, and improved
access to expertise.”Quintas, 2002
How to externalize the insights
“Locked in the heads of individual teachers and
protected by the privacy of their classrooms”
Hargreaves, 1999
VLEs as Knowledge Maps
• Lesson planning
• Online resources
• Assessment data
• Podcast / Vodcast
• Pupil - teacher interaction
• ...
A VLE is not an MIS• The knowledge teachers use day to day
• The knowledge at the core of the school’s activity
• It’s not about accountability; it’s not about control, and yet...
• Accommodating the “inherent complexity, sophistication and subtlety of professional life and work in educational institutions”
• Constructed within and owned by the organizations that use them
“School-devised systems ... tracked individual pupils and allowed schools the flexibility to input internally generated
data ... i.e. such tools were easier to customize to the school and its particular
needs and circumstances”Kirkup et al, 2005
Knowledge Sharing
Knowledge sharing within the organization
• A key to organizational success
• Meaningful to professional practice
• Necessary for shared decision making
Knowledge sharing beyond the organization
• VLE tools for professional development
• Creating and sharing resources with others
• Collaboration on instructional design
• Permeable boundaries
“We learn particularly well from the act of creating or expressing something for
others to see”
Martin’s 2nd Law
Knowledge Creation
“The co-production of knowledge with colleagues is a natural part of a teacher’s
professional work.”
OECD, 2000
“A social group constructing things for one another,
collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared
meanings.”
Moodle Docs 2005-7
“By digitising their creative efforts this generation of young people can share
the fruits of their labour with a worldwide audience.
They can post videos on YouTube or GoogleVideo, upload photos to Flickr
and link back to their friends on MySpace, FaceBook or Bebo.
They are connecting, exchanging and creating in new ways.
Demos 2007
Innovation• Learn from other
• countries• contexts• phases
• Experiment
• Reinvent the wheel
• Learner voice and choice
• Autonomy rather than accountability
Data Mining• Log files...
• Trends, patterns, exceptions• Correlations
• Better informed decisions
• Management• Teachers• Parents
• Assessment for learning
• Web 3.0
VLEs and KM
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our vle used for lesson planning
our vle brings together online resources that our pupils need
our pupil assessment data held in our vle
our vle used for pupil teacher dialogue
other teachers can access data teacher adds to vle
senior management can access data teacher adds to vle
we use our vle to share information amongst teachers
we use our vle to share resources amongst teachers
we use our vle to share information with other schools
our staff use vle to work collaboratively with each other
our vle used to work collaboratively with other schools
we regularly analyse data from vle
we look for trends and exceptions within data in our vle
use vle has allowed us to make better informed management decisions
use vle has allowed us to make better informed decisions about pupil support
our vle fully integrated with our management information system mis
our vle has had more impact on quality teaching and learning than our mis has
we ve changed way we teach because vle
we ve modified vle to fit in with way we teach
our vle has resulted in better management knowledge we have
our vle has promoted better organizational learning or development
our vle has promoted pupils construction knowledge
our school has knowledge management policy
most teacher s knowledge about they teach locked in their heads
most teacher s knowledge about their pupils locked in their heads
Findings 1• Little consensus about KM;
those that saw teacher’s knowledge as more tacit...
• Didn’t give SMT access to teachers’ data• Didn’t use VLE to inform support decisions• Didn’t integrate VLE and MIS
• Few schools had KM policies, but those that did...
• Analyzed data regularly and • Looked for trends and exceptions
Findings 2
VLE use includes• bringing together online resources, and• use for teacher - pupil dialogue,
but not• lesson planning, or• assessment data
although these seemed best to promote organizational learning and KM
Findings 3
• VLEs are used for sharing data, information and resources within the school
• 2/3 provide access to data for other teachers and SMT, particularly where respondents had participated in VLE development
• Those who share data inside the school also work collaboratively beyond the school
Findings 4
• Once a school becomes used to internal VLE mediated collaboration, they become willing to extend this practice beyond the school
• Collaboration amongst staff is a crucial dimension of organizational culture if the VLE is to be used to manage shared knowledge
Findings 5
• Not many analyze VLE data or look for trends and exceptions
• Relatively little integration with MIS
• Limited contribution to decision making (but better with Moodle than other systems!)
Findings 6• VLEs do have an effect on teaching
• VLEs support KM and Organizational Learning
• There’s less impact on pupils’ construction of knowledge or attainment, but...
• The introduction of a VLE alone will not be sufficient to impact learning and teaching, but embedding the VLE within the organization’s culture and practices might
Moodle and KM
Moodle
• Moodle content embodies the knowledge of its authors
• Moodle courses embody the knowledge of their teachers
• Moodle embodies the knowledge of its developers
Knowledge mapping • Courses!
• Lesson plan labels
• Podcast/vodcast
• Revision wikis
• Gradebook
• Outcomes
• Tags
Knowledge Sharing• Forums
• Wikis
• Resources
• Workshop
• Notes
• Repository
• Community Hub
Knowledge Creation• Wikis
• Forums
• Blogs
• Log files
• Courses...
• E-Portfolio
• Version control
Integration and Interoperability
• Courses
• Content
• RSS
• iCal
• PLE
• MIS
For more details...
E-Mail: [email protected]
Blog: eduspaces.net/mberry/weblog
School: www.altonconvent.org.uk