1. Advantages of an Open LMS: Tying the World to Moodle Keith Landa MoodleMoot @ SUNY Delhi 23 May 2011 http://purchase.academia.edu/KeithLandahttp://www.slideshare.net/keith.landa

2. Overview Purchase College Moodle & open source at Purchase Examples – E-portfolios – Use of video – Library integrations

3. Background Liberal Arts and Sciences plus Arts Conservatories ~4200 FTE Web enhancement of F2F courses Development of online programming

4. Focus on teaching & learning - Robust set of activities & resources - Add-on modules from the community - Moodle development pathway Costs - No licensing costs - Similar support costs Integration - Other systems - Web 2.0 world Flexible open architecture Why @ Purchase? Risk management - Risks of open source - Commercial products have different risks

5. Moodle & open source @ Purchase Not first app Moodle decision & campus climate Open source decisions – Self-host v. vendor hosting – Plain vanilla v. customization (community, hacks) – Consumer v. producer Moodle core for Purchase suite

6. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository The View from 30,000 Feet Live Classroom

7. E-portfolios

8. “Mahoodle” -Single sign-on -Mahara assignment in Moodle Adoption process for Mahara Why e-portfolios? -Tool to showcase student/faculty work? -Tool to support student learning? -Tool to collect institutional data? http://mahara.org

9. Mahara overview “Collect, select, reflect” and share (access control) Resume buildingSocial networking

11. Campus lessons - Mahara Adoption slower than with Moodle – Less faculty interest – Stealth adoption – Planned work with Career Services Stronger tie to Moodle 2.0 – Repositories Focus on tool for student learning – Constraints on student showcase uses – Constraints on harvesting institutional data

12. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Live Classroom

13. Video @ Purchase

15. Faculty use of video in Moodle YouTube resources very popular – Moodle multimedia filter – Embedding other video sites Web video not sufficient – Privacy, copyright needs Video uploads to Moodle – 150 MB limit per file – Course backups in the multi-GB range

16. Commercial/community hybrid -http://corp.kaltura.com/http://corp.kaltura.com/ -http://www.kaltura.org/http://www.kaltura.org/

18. Kaltura-Moodle integration Video resource – Media added to Kaltura through Moodle – Upload bypasses Moodle (file size issues) – Playback controls Video assignment type – Student submitted videos – Video sequencing tools: content bank, timeline, transitions

19. Streaming video rights Librarian role in obtaining streaming rights Direct access to Kaltura publisher dashboard Upload & transcode video Schedule availability Provide embed code for Moodle courses

23. Campus lessons - Kaltura Good feature set Developer/support community

24. VoiceThread http://voicethread.com/

25. VoiceThread – Moodle integrations Company developed Basic level: VoiceThread filter for Moodle Site-wide level – SSO between Moodle & VoiceThread – VoiceThread resource type – VoiceThread assignment type

26. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Live Classroom

27. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Moodle enrollments Librarian roles Course reserves Senior projects

30. Library reserves Moodle block to mediate interaction between faculty, library and students in course Request reserve materials Faculty and librarian dashboard

35. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Moodle enrollments Librarian roles Course reserves Senior projects

36. Student Information System Library Information Systems Academic Analytics Campus Repository Live Classroom

37. Questions? Keith Landa keith.landa@purchase.edu http://openscholar.purchase.edu/keith_landa