How and why people use the Moodle Book module

people use the

http://bit.ly/howBook

David Jones

@djplaner

http://bit.ly/howBook

http://bit.ly/howBook

Without such richness in available data, it is unlikely that organizations will realize significant improvements in their

capability to manage the post-adoptive life cycle (Jasperson, et al, 2005, p. 549)

Post-adoption behaviour

people use the

http://bit.ly/howBook

David Jones

@djplaner

USQ Moodle data

2012 through 2015

Perl, Excel, etc.

_201[0-9]_[0-9]

7477 Courses matching

(209 other courses)

USQ Moodle data

2012 through 2015

Perl, Excel, etc.

_201[0-9]_[0-9]

7477 Courses matching

(209 other courses)

ConjectureFuture workYour suggestions

Is it being used?

How updated and viewed?

How big?

Are they reading it?

Is it being used?

2012 2013 2014 20150

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

147

87

42

16

2012 2013 2014 2015

# coursesusing Book

15

34

62

112

Offerings

Courses

2012 2013 2014 2015

2.02%3.01%

6.36%

10.35%% offerings

using Book

2012 2013 2014 2015

# of book

resources

143

396

721

976

How many students in those offerings?

# students per “Book”offering

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 322.75 483 501 451Median 142 153.5 133 85Min 13 6 2 2

# students per Book offering - 2012

Median - 50% below/above

# students per Book offering - 2012

Lower quartile – 25% below

Upper quartile – 25% above

Minimum – excluding outliers

Maximum – excluding outliers

# students per “Book”offering

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 322.75 483 501 451Median 142 153.5 133 85Min 13 6 2 2

# studentsall offerings

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 209 214 238 239Median 38.5 40 42 38Min 1 1 1 1

All offerings

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 209 214 238 239Median 38.5 40 42 38Min 1 1 1 1

“Book”offerings

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 322.75 483 501 451Median 142 153.5 133 85Min 13 6 2 2

Large courses have a

need the book fulfils

Information distribution?Online only students?

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 25 11.47 12.5 100Median 0 0 0 0Min 0 0 0 0

% of online only

students in Book offerings

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 100 100 100 100Median 0 0 0 0Min 0 0 0 0

% of online only students

– all offerings

Book

All

Something changed in 2015

Removal of ICE?

# books per

offering

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 22 16 20 21Median 3 3 3 3Min 1 1 1 1

# books per

offering

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 22 16 20 21Median 3 3 3 3Min 1 1 1 1

78

Many

# chaptersper book

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 21 19 21 26Median 6 6 7 8Min 1 1 1 1

# chaptersper book

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 21 19 21 26Median 6 6 7 8Min 1 1 1 1

100

Big

# wordsper book

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 5282 3701 6651 6930Median 1157 1004 1498 1718Min 4 0 0 0

2012 2013 2014 2015

74.006k

Big books are print documentsMany courses = more integrated

What is done with them?

view

print

modify

create

update

read

Read:

hour

day

% of books?

Hours of day – all views

400,000

Hours of day – all prints

4000

All views

Prints

% studentsread all chaptersAll offerings

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 94.7% 95.6% 97.1% 100%Median 46.2% 5.3% 14.7% 2%Min 0% 0% 0% 0%

2012 2013 2014 2015

% studentsread all –Unusual

Import Big Many Revis.Max 3.5% 13.2% 12.9% 20%Median 0% 1.3% 2.63% 0%Min 0% 0% 0% 0%

Import Big Many Revisions

% students read all – EDC3100

2012-2 2013-1 2013-2 2014-1 2014-2 2015-1 2015-2

Max 82.7% 95.6% 95% 50.4% 96.5% 97.5% 96.7%Median 58% 73.8% 89% 42.6% 88.2% 84.1% 82.2%Min 29.6% 5.1% 76% 22.1% 65.9% 51.7% 61.1%

2012-2 2013-1 2014-1 2015-12013-2 2014-2 2015-2

More use = better integration?Extrinsic motivation = task corruption?What correlation exists with grades & learning?

By:

role

hour

day

method

Examiner

Assista

nt exa

miner

Moderator

UNKNOWN

StudentTutor

Teacher (

self-

managed)

Pseudo st

udent

Marker/T

eaching assista

nt

Non-editing teach

er

Course te

am member

Teacher

Course le

ader

General admin

0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

52230

107086015

2110 1406 1022 923 358 256 97 85 64 16 1

Updates by role

Examiner

Assista

nt exa

miner

Moderator

UNKNOWN

StudentTutor

Teacher (

self-

managed)

Pseudo st

udent

Marker/T

eaching assista

nt

Non-editing teach

er

Course te

am member

Teacher

Course le

ader

General admin

0

10000

20000

30000

40000

50000

60000

52230

107086015

2110 1406 1022 923 358 256 97 85 64 16 1

Updates by student2012 & 2015 offering

Updates by year by role

13,649

10,197

5345

2152

ExaminerAssistant Examiner Moderator

Unknown Student

Hours of day – all updates

8000

Revisions

per book

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Max 19 12 45 32Median 5 1 2 2Min 0 0 0 0

2012 2013 2014 20150.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

35.0

40.0

45.0

2012 2013 2014 2015

13.3%(19)

38%(151)

41.3%(300) 37.8%

(376)

Bookswith 0revisions

Book == print && ! web

2012 2013 2014 20150.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

2012 2013 2014 2015

0%

2.8%(2)

13.7%(14)

19.4%(30)

EDC3100Bookswith 0revisions

Created

Imported

Chapters Books Offerings

Create

or import

90.2 89.8 88.2

Improve affordance of import?

What do they contain?

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Upper 79.5 79.6 77.6 83.6Median 47.3 43.2 40.7 43.7Lower 3.3 3.4 5.4 4.2

Flesch reading-ease

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015

2012 2013 2014 2015Upper 46 48 63 74Median 11 13 14 17Lower 0 0 0 0

Links perbook

Types of links - 2015

LMS

75% < 7

50% < 2

USQ

75% < 3

WWW

75% < 17

50% < 7

Larger courses use the book?

~90% not using import function

Appear to be thought of as print documentsMany aren’t read

http://bit.ly/howBook

http://bit.ly/howBook

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