Enovation Solutions Ltd

The Friary, Bow Street, Dublin 7

www.enovation.ie

Evaluating e-Learning as a tool for

knowledge management

Gavin Henrick Solutions Consultant

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Agenda

Moodle Overview

Content Issues

Reporting and Tracking

Assessment

Collaboration

Communications

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Choosing an LMS

Top 5 LMS - E-Learning Guild survey (2009)

1. Moodle (18.1%)

2. TotalLMS (11.7%)

3. Blackboard (11.2%)

4. Inhouse Development(9%)

5. Plateau Learning Management System(6.9%)

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Some Stats

Registered Sites 48,000+

Number of countries 211

Number of users in Moodle sites 34.8 Million

Number of teacher accounts 1.2 Million

Number of courses created 3.5 Million

Number* of Downloads per month150,000+

Active Community 40,000

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Growing Usage

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Moodle Locations

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Key Features

Easy to use for learners, teachers and admins

Ability to support different modes of learning

Centralised Competencies

Support for content standards (SCORM)

Open source allows customisation

Support for Web 2.0 features

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Content Types

Word/Excel/Powerpoint Documents

PDF Documents

Audio

Video

Web Pages

Web Links

Learning Objects (Scorm/AICC)

Web 2.0 – RSS, Blogs, Wikis, Forums

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Instructional Design

Curriculum Analysis

Schema Definition

Lesson Plans

Course Structures

Resource Interpretation

Activity Selection

Workflow

Review

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Administration

Create / Remove courses

Create / Remove users and roles

Add / Remove people to courses

Manage structure of site (Categories/Courses)

Manage activities and resources within courses

Manage layout of the page (blocks/Theme)

Calendar

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Reporting

Moodle tracks all user actions

Comprehensive list reports covering all activity in

Moodle

• User Reports

• Course Reports

• Activity Reports

Enhanced reporting through external JasperReports

• Parameterised custom reports

• Custom “Print-Perfect” reports

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Assessment

Multiple assignment types

• File upload

• Online submission

Graded Lessons

Quizzes

• Exam mode

• Reflective tests

Scorm learning objects

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Online Collaboration

Multiple forum types

• Single topic

• Q&A

• Open forum

Real-time chat for synchronous discussion

Wiki – for single and group usage

Databases for sharing files

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Communication

Announcement forum for broadcast emails

Built in surveys

Customisable feedback questionnaires

Txt/mail students, groups

Private messaging system built into Moodle

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Ease of Customisation

Open Source implies full rights to modify

Written in PHP / MySQL

640 third party plugins

Easy to customise but must manage source and

maintain upgrade path

Enovation have 6+ years experience

• Custom source version control (SVN) tailored for

moodle

• Have developed and contributed add-ons to Moodle

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Active Directory Infrastructure

Elluminate

SSO ePortfolio

Turn It In (TII)Web Site/External Authentication

SAP

HR Systems

Interoperability Experience

Why Moodle?

Scalable platform

Security focused design

Seamless integration with 3rd party systems

Supports e-learning content standards

Configurable for multiple learning approaches

Fully customisable and brandable.

Questions?

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Contacts

Gavin Henrick

gavin.henrick@enovation.ie

Enovation Solutions

www.enovation.ie