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A Strategic Learning Environment with Moodle at the core. Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 4; 8:00am- 9:30am City University London's vision to create a new Strategic Learning Environment (SLE) which delivers a core set of educational tools for all but has the flexibility to meet individual requirements has driven its decision, made by a community of stakeholders, to migrate to Moodle. Using a Holistic Faculty Support System to Facilitate LMS Migration Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 4; 11:10am-12:30pm Instructional Support Services at NC State University offers a wide spectrum of faculty support services, including a learning technology helpdesk, instructional housecalls, workshops, and collaborative course development. Since 2008 we have been using these services to evaluate Moodle and then plan for migration of instructors from Blackboard Vista to Moodle. On demand course data availability: Backadel and Simplified Restore - backup session eCOOL – a pedagogical concept combining elearning with the methods of cooperative open learning
Andreas Riepl, Center of cooperative, open learning, Austria Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 4; 1:40pm-3:00pm When we talk about elearning in Austria we are actually talking about blended learning scenarios. Starting from an early age we are looking for motivational factors to encourage students to use new tools and find attractive ways towards learning. Teachers become mentors that guide students and provide them with assignments within the ecool‐concept. There is an emphasis on didactical collaborative methods, eportfolio‐work, individualization and reflection of student’s work.
Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 4; 1:40pm-3:00pm Facilitated Group Discussion on the feasibility of shared or Open Courseware in a research university setting. Automatic Moodle Profile Picture Application - backup session
Free like puppies not like beer: Our journey from a commercial LMS to an open learning environment. Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 3; 11:10am- 12:30pm The idea of a “free” Learning Management System may be quite compelling to campuses interested in reducing costs; however, it’s not that simple. Learn how NC State University is moving to Moodle as an open source solution where resources are redirected to give our campus flexibility and control. If there are other institutions interested in very similar open source LMS topics for a panel discussion, we would be interested in participating in that in lieu of, or in addition to, a lecture-style presentation, if appropriate.
Framing the direction of Moodle research: A review of scholarly literature. Sherry’s (1996) categorization system for distance education was used in this study to organize existing research available through five prominent scholarly databases. Analysis shows that pedagogical themes such as strategies to increase interactivity and active learning dominate the literature and the methods are largely descriptive. Moodle - Online Aviation Program at UVU Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 2; 1:40pm-3:00pm How the Aviation Science Department at Utah Valley University is replacing a 10 year-old Learning Management System to benefit their program with over 1500 students. What is Moodle Contribution and how does it affect me? Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 3; 1:40pm-3:00pm An in-depth look at Moodle Contribution, how work is contributed, and how you can take advantage of it.
Creating a Online Student Orientation Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 2; 8:00am-9:30am This workshop will give you a short cut to developing an online student orientation for your hybrid or online programs. It will briefly review how to research what should be included at your institution and the needed basic’s. It will be demonstrated in the Moodle environment. Resources will be shared. Using Moodle to Create and Deliver an Online Readiness Course for Secondary Students Thursday, October 29th, 2009; Room: Boca 2; 11:10am-12:30pm We have created an online readiness course for secondary students through Moodle. The course introduces students to various methods of online content delivery. The content of the course is centered on the admission process and the first year of college. The result is students becoming confident with learning online. |
