| June 18 – 10:00 am to 10:50 am |
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Room A
TITLE:
5 Not-So-Easy BUT Possible Steps: Blackboard to Moodle in 1 Semester
PRESENTERS:
Jessica McKean, Alliant University International
DESCRIPTION:
The one hour session will follow the chronological order of events that took place to switch 900 core and adjunct faculty and 4600 students from Blackboard to Moodle in one semester across 6 California and 3 international campuses. We will cover all of the important steps we took to create a positive buzz amongst the faculty and staff throughout the university. We will provide documentation, software used and visuals aids for each step we took to transform the university.
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Room B
TITLE:
Into the Third Dimension with SLOODLE
PRESENTERS:
Jeremy Kemp, Information Science, San Jose State University
DESCRIPTION:
SLOODLE has moved recently from an experimental system to one actively used by a small but growing number of educators around the globe, and in a growing range of disciplines. This presentation will briefly outline what SLOODLE is and what SLOODLE does - explaining why integrating two such diverse platforms can be of benefit to educators and students. Examples and case-studies drawn from different classes that have been taught using Second Life and Moodle using SLOODLE will be used to illustrate the presentation. Preliminary results from user surveys (with tutors and students) will also be discussed. See: http://www.sloodle.org
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Room C
TITLE:
Moodle is not Just for Teaching: How Moodle Brings Cal State Closer to the Community
PRESENTERS:
Mauricio Cadavid, Office of Distributed Learning, CSU San Bernardino
DESCRIPTION:
California State University, San Bernardino implemented several communities of practice in Moodle to both encourage learning and foster collaboration between the university and the broader community. We describe how Moodle tools and resources were used to meet the needs of stakeholders in forming and sustaining these robust communities of practice.
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| June 18 – 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm |
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Room A
TITLE:
How to Facilitate Faculty-driven Development Without Faculty-Developer Interaction (MDAC)
PRESENTERS:
Buddy Ethridge, LMS Administrator, Louisiana State University
DESCRIPTION:
To help better meet the needs of the LSU community while preventing potential conflict between the faculty and IT staff, the LSU Moodle Development Advisory Committee (MDAC) was formed to guide the allocation of developmental resources devoted to the LSU Moodle in a transparent and highly accessible manner. This presentation will discuss how this committee was initially formed, the role of the administrator as the facilitator of communication between the departments, and the benefits of such a system. Discussion regarding the successes and failures in the committee’s first year, as well as future plans for improvement will conclude the presentation.
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Room B
TITLE:
Using the Questionnaire tool to design a perceptual measure to evaluate online learning environments
PRESENTER(S):
John Clayton, Manager, Emerging Technologies Centre, Waikato Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION:
This interactive presentation will be focused on three topics. Topic one will briefly review the development and use of internet facilitated perceptual measures in online learning environments. Topic two will firstly, explore the functionality of the Questionnaire Tool and secondly, illustrate how this functionality can be used to design and deploy a perceptual measure. Topic three will demonstrate how a perceptual measure has been used to review the layout of a web-space created as part of an e-learning in industry initiative.
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Room C
TITLE:
Moodle in the California State University system: How the system supports investigation, adoption, and implementation
PRESENTER(S):
Marc Oehlman, Interim Director, Center for Academic Technology, CSU Monterey Bay
Lori Holden, Web Communications and Applications Assistant, Academic Technology Services, California State University system
Kevin Kelly, Online Teaching and Learning Coordinator, Academic Technology, San Francisco State University
DESCRIPTION:
This session will describe system-wide processes that the CSU system has led and implemented, such as
Conducting the CSU LMS RFP process (times two)
Coordinating a system-wide sandbox with a Moodle hosting company (e.g., what has worked, what hasn't; creating Memoranda of Understanding with each campus for a more concrete commitment
Offering support and centralized training opportunities to CSU campuses (e.g., having a set of consultants to help campuses make decisions
Creating Memoranda of Understanding with a three-campus CSU Moodle coalition that acts as an early adopter that informs the rest of the system
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| June 18 – 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm |
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Room A
TITLE:
Integration of Moodle with an SIS using Webservices
PRESENTER(S):
Ken DeVellis, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Technical Institute (ATI)
DESCRIPTION:
Simplifying the administrative tasks can be accomplished, however, by integrating an existing Student Information System (SIS) or HR records management system with Moodle. This presentation will explain how an existing SIS has been connected to Moodle using the webservices technique to provide key administrative support functions via an easy-to-use administrative console. Instead of being a PowerPoint slide presentation, an SIS and Moodle running on a laptop will be used to show the real integration in action.
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Room B
TITLE:
Video Lectures and Online Office Hours: Teaching Biology Through the Internet
PRESENTER(S):
Nathan Lents, Professor of Molecular Biology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York
DESCRIPTION:
The presentation will detail two classroom studies conducted at City University of New York (recently accepted by JCST), on the use of Instant Messaging and Voice-Over-PowerPoint video lectures in a majors-level undergraduate biology course. These have proven to be effective means to deliver key course content via the Internet to university science students.
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Room C
TITLE:
The Moodle Course Creator Certificate (MCCC)
PRESENTER(S):
Haidee Foxwell, HRDNZ (Moodle Partner in New Zealand)
DESCRIPTION:
An overview of the Moodle Course Creator Certificate (MCCC) including: Determining applicability for you (i.e., Is it right for me?), preparation, and strategies for success
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| June 18 – 3:00 pm to 3:50 pm |
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Room A
TITLE:
Moodle Site Administration: Bringing Together Technology and Usability
PRESENTER(S):
Mary Parke, Senior Instructional Designer, Office of Technology-Mediated Instruction, City College of San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:
This session will address many of the key challenges facing your Moodle implementation team during the configuration of your new site. The focus is on how to properly configure the site administration for both IT needs and usability by the faculty and students. Examples of successful mapping will be explored, and a map and outline of the Moodle Site Administration menus based upon version 1.9 standard will be provided.
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Room B
TITLE:
A model and framework for designing & integrating ICT Enhanced Learning & Teaching
PRESENTER(S):
Hazel Owen, Education Technology Consultant, Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation, Unitec NZ
DESCRIPTION:
The Information Communication Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching process model and conceptual design framework were developed to help answer the question: “Where do I start?” The model and framework are currently being piloted in NZ. This poster will present the design model and framework, alongside experiences from the pilot.
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Room C
TITLE:
Adopting an open source LMS: an interpretive case study
PRESENTER(S):
Leigh Jin, Assistant Professor of Information Systems, San Francisco State University
DESCRIPTION:
The goal of this project is to conduct an interpretive case study to examine the implementation and maintenance of iLearn – the mission critical LMS at SF State. The study investigate three related issues:
1) The motivation, benefits, and challenges associated with adopting open source versus commercial LMS in the public education sector; 2) The total cost of ownership involved in supporting and maintaining open source LMS on campus; 3) The strategy and best practices that potentially help to facilitate the successful implementation of an open source LMS.
We plan to present the preliminary findings at the Moodle conference.
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| June 18 – 4:00 pm to 4:50 pm |
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Room A
TITLE:
Bulding an institutional portal with Moodle!
PRESENTER(S):
Michael Penney, Managing Director, Western Region, MoodleRooms
DESCRIPTION:
This presentation will describe projects that utilize the Flexpage Course format with other standard and custom tools to develop an institutional web presence and flexible administrative dashboards, microsites, and departmental and/or categorical sites with Moodle. Examples: highly customized sites (institutional branding) with minimal core code changes; accessibility of Flexpage tabs and AJAX code; enabling crowdsourced content translation with revision management, approval, and user editable templates; integrating standards-based (SAML/Oauth) SSO integrations with external tools such as GoogleApps; making big changes to Moodle using its API to minimize the effort involved in upgrades.
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Room B
TITLE:
Presenting content to students using the functionalities of Exabis: A portfolio block in Moodle
PRESENTER(S):
John Clayton, Manager, Emerging Technologies Centre, Waikato Institute of Technology
DESCRIPTION:
This interactive presentation will present a solution related to how content is timed, sequenced and released using a teaching portfolio. The presentation will be focused on three topics: Topic one will briefly review the concept of using teaching portfolios in educational settings. Topic two will firstly, explore the functionality of the Exabis Portfolio block and secondly, illustrate how this functionality can be used to present content to students. Topic three will demonstrate how the Exabis block is being piloted to present digital content.
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Room C
TITLE:
Strategies for Success: Moodle Facutly Advisory Board
PRESENTER(S):
Randy Stamm, eLearning Coordinator, Idaho State University
DESCRIPTION:
This session will provide overview Idaho State University's strategic efforts to encourage faculty involvement in the Institution’s Moodle planning efforts. A Moodle Faculty Advisory Board (MFAB) recommends upgrade paths, advises on new contributed modules, and supports initiatives for sustainability.
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| June 19 – 8:00 am to 8:50 am |
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Room A
TITLE:
What's Broken? Collecting grievances for the Moodle community
PRESENTER(S):
Marc Oehlman, Interim Director, Center for Academic Technology, CSU Monterey Bay
DESCRIPTION:
We all love Moodle. It rocks! It makes Kona coffee! It does my taxes. But like anything, it can be better. This session provides the opportunity to share our gripes back to Moodle.org about version 1.9.x… from front page to the inner depths, there is room to improve… what is it and why?
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Room B
TITLE:
Creating Community in Moodle Courses in Psychology and the Social Sciences: Relational Learning
PRESENTER(S):
Diane Zelman, Professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant University International
Sue Kuba, PhD, Professor and Director of Online Education, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University
Rhoda Olkin, PhD, Distinguished Professor, California School of Professional Psychology; Executive Director, Institute on Disability and Health Psychology
Siobhan O’Toole, Associate Professor and Assistant Program Director, California School of Professional Psychology Clinical Psychology, PhD Program, Fresno
DESCRIPTION:
On-line instructors in psychology, management and the social sciences often wish to inculcate interpersonal skills, interpersonal awareness, cultural sensitivity and community problem-solving. The presenters show how to accomplish these aims in a variety of Moodle courses, including abnormal psychology, statistics, history of psychology and a course offered in a cross-national format.
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Room C
TITLE:
Moodle--Beyond Course Management
PRESENTER(S):
Catheryn Cheal
DESCRIPTION:
Oakland University has implemented multiple instances of it's learning management system, Moodle, for other purposes than course management. These include an e-portfolio, an Admissions, and a Board of Trustees communication system. The advantage is that campus users and IT support only needs to learn one interface and support mechanism.
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| June 19 – 9:00 am to 9:50 am |
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Room A
TITLE:
Moodle Database: Tips and Tricks
PRESENTER(S):
Taylor Judd, Informational Technology Consultant, Academic Technology, San Francisco State University
DESCRIPTION:
This session will highlight some of the challenges of maintaining a large-scale Moodle mySQL database. It will cover techniques for upgrading Moodle builds as well as basic tricks and troubleshooting as it relates to the mySQL database. Basic mySQL skills are helpful but all are welcome.
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Room B
TITLE:
The New Zealand Public Sector Moodle Initiative
PRESENTER(S):
Nolen Smith, Director, Flexible Learning Network Ltd.
DESCRIPTION:
The Public Sector Moodle Initiative has seen the wide uptake of Moodle from many of New Zealand’s government departments. Their use of Moodle is creating an impressive culture of collaboration and community of practice among these departments.
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Room C
TITLE:
Intersegmental Moodle: 3 SF campuses moving in the same direction
PRESENTER(S):
Kevin Kelly, Online Teaching and Learning Coordinator, Academic Technology, San Francisco State University
Mamie How, Dean of Educational Technology, City College of San Francisco
Brian Warling, Manager, Center for Instructional Technology, UC San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:
This session will discuss opportunities that are emerging now that three different higher education campuses in San Francisco have adopted Moodle. Since these campuses belong to different systems—California Community College system, California State University system, and the University of California system—this represents a unique chance to help students who might attend more than one institution.
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| June 19 – 10:00 am to 10:50 am |
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Room A
TITLE:
Integrating social-networking and Web 2.0 in Moodle courses
PRESENTER(S):
Stuart Mealor, Managing Director, HRDNZ
DESCRIPTION:
This presentation explores practical ways Teachers can create Moodle courses that integrate social-networking features and Web2.0 technologies.
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Room B
TITLE:
Informed design for and use of Moodle-based formative assessment for language instruction
PRESENTER(S):
Huan Wang, Sr. Instructional Technology Consultant, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
Jieun Kim, Instructional Technology Consultant, UCLA Center for Digital Humanities
DESCRIPTION:
The presentation discusses how existing technical features of Moodle relate to desired features of task design and test administration for formative assessment used in language instruction. Also discussed are implications for technical development and practical applications of Moodle, with illustrations of use cases from UCLA.
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Room C
TITLE:
Hosting Moodle: The Monterey Bay Consortium
PRESENTER(S):
Marc Oehlman, Interim Director, Center for Academic Technology, CSU Monterey Bay
Representatives from Monterey Bay community colleges
DESCRIPTION:
Educational institutions in the Monterey Bay area have formed a collaborative support and hosting infrastructure to better serve students K-16. This session will discuss the challenges and opportunities from this experience.
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