Miranda Welch & Nolen Smith

Learning Technologies

“The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.”

-William Gibson

Discussing…

A world-leading project in New Zealand Education

Its Impact on learning development & delivery

Its compatibility for the New Zealand State Sector

How it is starting to be adopted by the Sector, and

The further possibilities for the Sector

NZOSVLEAddressed challenges of:

Uneven access and know-howCost barrier to entry for small institutions = digital divide within the education systemDuplication of investmentLack of flexibility, rigid constructsLack of cultural identity when using systems like BlackBoard, WebCT

Project Goal: Deliver Open Source Infrastructure

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

Reduce Barriers to Entry

Localisation (cultural identity efforts)

Ensure flexibility - educational needs drives technology- Flexible architecture, highly modular & extendable

Think global, where possible adopt, adapt contribute

Be good community citizens, avoid forking- Sustainability, TCO, economies from critical mass

Innovation – Code mobility is a fundamental driver of software

innovation

Resulting from NZOSVLE:Moodle as a viable LMS

Resulting from NZOSVLE:Moodle as a viable LMS

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Resulting from NZOSVLE:Moodle as a viable LMS

Open Educational Resources

e-Learning Networks

Resulting from NZOSVLE:Moodle as a viable LMS

Open Educational Resources

eLearning Networks

ePortfolio - Mahara

OSS ePortfoliohttps://eduforge.org/projects/mahara/

Why are these of interest to the Public Service?Low cost Learning Platform

Shareable Learning Content

Shareable Learning Initiatives

Shareable Learning Record

Learning Technology – why now?

Great HR Man

75% of costs are people costs

Budgets are squeezed, efficiency demanded

ROI expected but hard to calculate

Need to respond to the pace of change

Customise my content

Hard to find, and keep, skilled staff

Learning Technology – why now?

Traditional Classroom training is

expensive and time

consuming, and pretty

ineffective but it’s what we

know

75% of costs are people costs

Budgets are squeezed, efficiency demanded

ROI expected but hard to calculate

Need to respond to the pace of change

Customise my content

Hard to find, and keep, skilled staff

Learning Technology – why now?

Faster and cheaper

and more effective

training

through

Collaboration and

Joint effort

Traditional Classroom training is

expensive and time

consuming, and pretty

ineffective but it’s what we

know

75% of costs are people costs

Budgets are squeezed, efficiency demanded

ROI expected but hard to calculate

Need to respond to the pace of change

Customise my content

Hard to find, and keep, skilled staff

Learning Technology – why now?

State Sector Development Goals

1. Are state servants getting the development they need?

2. Are agencies clear about the competencies they require?

3. Is there a consistent L&D framework in use?

State Sector Development Goals

1. Are state servants getting the development they need?

2. Are agencies clear about the competencies they require?

3. Is there a consistent L&D framework in use?

Technology

• enhances access to training

•Tracks activity

•Simplifies development

•Reduces effort

State Sector Development Goals

Education Sector are already there

•Increased access

•Reduced costs

•Improved learning outcomes

“Many organizations with high-performing learning functions are able to attribute

clear costs savingsefficiency gains in the learning functionincreased content reusedecreased costs of learning development and delivery

to successful technology investments”

ASTD 2006 State of the Industry Report.

So what’s happening now?Moodle implemented by…

So what’s happening now?Moodle implemented by…

Willingness to share content and development…

So what’s happening now?Moodle implemented by…

Willingness to share content and development…

Discussions around networking Moodle sites…

Networking Moodles

MSD

IRD

LDC

Single Sign-on

Networking Moodles

MSD

IRD

LDCLDCSSC

Single Sign-on

Networking Moodles

MSD

IRD

LDCLDCSSC

LDCOthers

Single Sign-on

Networking Moodles

MSD

IRD

LDCLDCSSC

LDCOthers

Single Sign-onLOR

So what’s happening now?Moodle implemented by…

Willingness to share content and development…

Discussions around networking Moodle sites…

Potential of Maraha…

An electronic portfolio is an online collection of reflections and digital Artefacts (such as documents, images, blogs, résumés, multimedia).

Mahara (Māori for ‘think’ or ‘thought’)

Currently being piloted by seven tertiary education organisations via a single instance - My Portfolio.

Designed to provide a life-long learning and social networking environment for students and teachers.

Mahara FrameworkFor example:

What happens next?...

Be prepared to discuss with HR

Questions?