Moodle, beyond implementation, steps in developing an eLearning Environment

Nathan HutchingsBA, B.Ed, GradDip(Ecom), M.Ed(Leadership)MACEL, QSITE Board

ICT & eLearning CoordinatorSaint John’s Anglican College, Brisbane

What is an eLearning Environment?

• The sum of many parts– LMS (Moodle)– Video Streaming (ClickView/YouTube)– Cloud services (Microsoft Live@edu, Dropbox)– PEOPLE, teachers, students, admin, support staff– Processes of review – State of mind

More gear?

• IT infrastructure is crucial to support the learning needs for all members of a learning community, 24/7, 365

• Bandwidth is crucial, proliferation of desktop applications is not!

Keeping I.T all working

• management and continued maintenance and upgrading of networks, hardware and software are crucial to support the key focus of schooling, teaching and learning.

• Data footprint, the elephant in the room– Keep an eye on the cloud for non-critical storage

solutions

Leveraging – Your Learning Content

• importance of access to and development of learning content can provide a strategic differentiation for schools

• Anyone can access online content, but not everyone can develop effective learning objects – a collection of content items, practice items, and assessment items

that are combined based on a single learning objective

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_object

Develop human capital

• People who work alongside, teachers, curriculum specialist, network engineers and technicians to develop systems which support and enrich the learning of students– Directors of E-Learning– E-Learning Developers– Instructional Designers– E-Learning Coordinators

• productive wealth embodied in labour, skills and knowledge

Source: http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=1264

Things that feed the eLearning ecology

• The development of a successful E-Learning environment is an iterative process, not something that can be planed for then delivered and expected to autonomously work as teachers feed it with lesson plans and learning objects.

• A Reflexive approach to learning• Personal Learning Networks PLNs to connect• Online Video, developing content channels• Social Web, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs

Reflexivity• Reflexivity requires an awareness of the researcher's contribution

to the construction of meanings throughout the research process, and an acknowledgment of the impossibility of remaining 'outside of' one's subject matter while conducting research.

• An important function of reflexive analysis is to expose the underlying assumptions on which arguments and stances are built. We are socialized into assumptions as we internalize world views

• reflexive sensibility gradually emerges from all these struggles to understand how we may lay claim to know something worth acting-upon

Source: http://www.psy.dmu.ac.uk/michael/qual_reflexivity.htm

More, more a lot more

Source: http://www.devicemag.com/2011/06/24/zettabytes-coming-of-age-we-know-you-are-wondering-what-they-are/

What people are doing now

Source: http://www.devicemag.com/2011/06/24/zettabytes-coming-of-age-we-know-you-are-wondering-what-they-are/

TV is Dead!

• As television increasingly dominates our leisure and screen time, it has continued to spiral down toward base human fears and car-wreck peeping tom voyeurism.

• The Web accelerated the connection of data. But the Video Web accelerates the transmission, innovation, and iteration of IDEAS.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/tv-is-dead-long-live-web_b_734926.html

Web Video, Dogs on skate boards & Amazing ideas

Pah… this internet thing is a passing fad (1995)

• What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact… Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert… beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth… in the holy names of Education and Progress—important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.

Source: http://www.newsweek.com/1995/02/26/the-internet-bah.html

Social Networking, Putting the ‘C’ into I.C.Ts

source: http://blog.comscore.com/2011/06/facebook_linkedin_twitter_tumblr.html

Teachers who social network

Edmodo

reinvigoration of teaching

• Use the e-Learning environment within your school– 4 year cycle for eLearning Content

• Year 1 develop/build• Year 2 review/polish, get feedback• Year 3 think of next iteration, get feedback• Year 4 rebuild time

• Cultivate a PLN that feeds you ideas and personal learning resources

• Feedback from students and staff, quick Polls, short surveys

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