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So... You've heard you can get an LMS for free? Moodle, Drupal and other content management tools are open source and free for the downloading. What are the pro's, the cons, and the simply untrue things.
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Straight talk on the “free” LMS
Come With Us
Sharon Boller, President Kelly Davis, Multimedia Development
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an agenda
experience
The
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The Moodle Experience:Ours
The bottom-line (no pun intended): We needed to try Moodle for ourselves to see how it could help
us and how it could help our clients.
• 16 employees…but mostly scattered.
• Constant need to learn new techniques, tools, technologies.
• Huge need for informal learning• Desire to offer training to
external customers – and charge them for training.
• Desire to learn Moodle so we can help small organizations implement it for themselves.
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The Moodle Experience: Our first “wow”
She is going to cool conference where she will learn a LOT about what’s emerging in learning field.
She is staying at the office.
Kelly – this is okay as is; I’m going to leave this slide to go to a demo of Moodle. I’m going to show the DevLearn conference “course”
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The Moodle Experience: Now
Provide learning opportunities
Foster community
Communicate and update
Find and manage resources
Transfer learning from ONE to MANY
“Manage” learning and learners
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The Moodle Experience:Two others
Farm Bureau•~1700 employees – lots in the field•No budget for LMS•One person in training with a technical bent•Need to verify passing and completion•Huge desire to enhance informal learning
Sleep Train• 230 stores; 4 states, 1 training person, no $$ for an LMS.• LOTS of turnover – continual new product info to share•Need to verify people “passed” knowledge tests.
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The Moodle Experience:What it IS
Blogging tool Forums
Wikis
Testing and survey tool
Glossaries
Intended to help you build a learning
community
Repository for resources
Links to people,
other social networks
Formal courses
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• Used by millions• Adopted MOST by people with fewer than 5000 users• Experiencing dramatic growth – huge spike in past 6 months.• Free to download
Top LMS tools (marketshare)
1. Moodle (18.6%)
2. Other (16.6%)
3. Developed in-house (14.8%)
4. SumTotal (14.6%)
5. Saba (12.5)
6. Blackboard (8.9%)
7. Oracle (7.9%)
8. Plateau (7.5%)
9. Learn.com (6.7%)
10.SkillSoft (6.2%)
Organizations with MORE than 10,000
1. SumTotal (22.3%)
2. Saba (20.4%)
3. Developed in-house (16.8%)
4. Plateau (14.1%)
5. Oracle (10.9%)
6. TIE: SkillSoft and Moodle (7.9%)
8. Blackboard (7.6%)
9. SAP (4.6%)
10.Learn.com (4.3%)
The Moodle Experience:What it IS
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A development tool - it has no “C” as in LCMS
Something you have to learn all at once…before you implement anything
A commercial product - there’s no vendor behind the scenes to install, train, and support you…unless you hire a “Moodle” partner.
Super-quick to figure out/learn – it’s not HARD, but it does take time.Completely without costsOptimized to generate
lots of system-wide data
The Moodle Experience:What it is NOT
Installation and Configuration
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Installation and Configuration:Start to Now
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Installing and configuring:What to ask BEFORE you start
• Ask BEFORE installing!– Does a resource exist who is willing to learn
an open-source software application? Will my organization support open-source software?
– Will I have any IT support?– Do I have the money, time, and expertise to
host Moodle on my own internal server OR should I find an external host?
– If I decide to have an external host, should I get a dedicated server or a shared server? (Shared servers allow smaller file size uploads.)
– Who will be the system administrators? How will admins divide responsibility?
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• Hardware Requirements• Minimum 150 to 200MB disk space• Network or standalone
• Software Requirements• Database – MySQL is recommended• Web server – Apache is preferred• PHP – PHP 4.30 is required to run Moodle 1.9. It is
advisable to use PHP 5.24 or higher for Moodle 2.0. • PHP Extensions
• Moodle Packages• Standard• Mac OS X - local• Windows – local
Installing and Configuring:System requirements
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Installing and Configuring:Required skill/knowledge assets
• Knowledge assets– PHP (installation)– CSS (graphical look, positioning, etc)– MySQL (installation)– HTML (installation)– SCORM (course configuration)– Course design/development (course
creation)– Social media savvy (informal learning)
• Personality assets– Patience (installation, configuration,
development)– Confidence (i.e. can’t be afraid to try stuff
and see what happens)
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more on configuration…
Maintaining Moodle
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• Site administration• Course administration and
development• User involvement
Maintaining Moodle:Three considerations
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Maintaining Moodle:Site and Course Administration
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Maintaining Moodle:User Involvement
Data Tracking
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Data tracking:What you CAN get
• What reports can you get?– Site level:
• All/Individual activity logs across entire site or by course
– Course level:• All/individual participant activity logs• All participant grades• Individual participant reports
• What do these reports tell you?– Activity logs: what the user did, not how they did.– Grade and participant reports: completion, score, and
activity.
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• What if you want more? – Add-ons are available. Here are a few we have found but not tried:
• Category Activity Reports• Completion Report • Moomis
Data tracking:What you CAN get
The costs – really.
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Hard costs – pretty minimal
“Soft” costs (translate to personnel to make Moodle successful) can be more than people think.
The costs – really.