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Plenary Sessions + Moodle and Mahara in Tertiary Education

Oceania

Moodle and Mahara in Schools

Rangiemarie Room 2
TelstraClear Centre

Moodle and Workplace Learning

Rangiemarie Room 1
TelstraClear Centre

8.00 – 9.00

Registration

Oceania Foyer

9.00 - 9.15

Welcome

9.15 -

10.00

Keynote - Teaching With and Beyond the Learning Management System

In this presentation Terry overviews both the strengths and limitations of current generation Learning Management Systems (LMS). The LMS of today allows teachers and trainers with minimal technical skills to develop and teach high quality learning programmes that provide necessary support for effective group learning - anywhere/anytime. However these systems have little persistence such that activities and traces of learning usually are destroyed at the end of the course. In addition, the secure environment of the LMS often precludes planned and spontaneous connections with external agents. Thus, the challenge for teachers and developers is to maximize affordances of the LMS and at the same time to find ways to integrate advantages made available by Web 2.0 tools and personal learning environments.

Professor Terry Anderson
Athabasca University
Canada

Professor Terry Anderson is Canadian Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University. Athabasca was one of the first major tertiary institutions to adopt Moodle. He is currently the Editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning and serves on a number of other editorial boards. Notably, Terry is author of the highly acclaimed open access book entitled "The Theory and Practice of Online Learning. Professor Anderson serves on several advisory committees with the Alberta and Canadian governments and is a highly sought after keynote speaker.

http://terrya.edublogs.org

10.00 -10.20

Morning Tea

10.20 – 11.00

ePortfolios: Current practice and future trends
Oceania

This presentation considers ePortoflio use in the formal education sector, and provides an established practice look at implementing ePortfolios in education settings. The time has also come to ask serious questions about what ought to come next, so a number of issues that ePortfolio practitioners in the education sector will need to wrestle with in the years ahead are suggested, along with recommendations for anticipating developments.

Mark Nichols
E-Learning Specialist
Laidlaw College

Moodle Industry Training Management System

The Moodle Industry Training Management System is a variant of Moodle designed to be fit-for-purpose for the on-job training context. A key area of focus is to develop functionality to support competency frameworks and integrated tools to map skills and competencies to individual learner plans particularly in relation to organisational and vocational roles.

Managed by Flexible Learning and with software development by Catalyst IT, the MITMS project involves the Open Polytechnic, Learning State, ETITO and Competenz.

Richard Wyles and Sue Dark
Flexible Learning Network

11.00 – 11.40

University of Canterbury

Customizing Moodle: The Canterbury Experience

Canterbury developers have developed a number of customizations for their Moodle instance. These include; multiple file upload, creating blocks that link to the library resources and student access to course readers to name a few. A number of these will be made available to the Moodle community.

Staff Support
2010 sees implementation of Moodle across the campus at Canterbury University. The process has been rolled out over three semesters with a series of workshop sessions and consultations being offered. Find out about some of the successes, pitfalls and challenges that have been faced.

Alan Hoskin is a Flexible Learning Advisor at the University Centre for Teaching and Learning where he has been working for the last three years. He comes from a teaching background where he has developed an interest in the use of technology in teaching and learning.

Moodle and Mahara in the Managed Learning Environment (MLE)

Paul will provide an overview of recent initiatives that enhance the use of Moodle in our school system:

- digitalnz block
- SMS-LMS integration
- parental portal
- Single sign-on with range of other applications using open standards
- open education resources training in Moodle
- edna block
- NZ schooling metadata
- financial support for schools without Moodle to implement it...etc.

Paul Seiler
Manager, Managed Learning Environments
Ministry of Education

Moodle use in the NZ Government

Austen will cover the following topics:
Current LMS use in NZ Government

• what the agencies are running
• their level of usage / stage of the journey
• some key lessons / observations
• intro to the inter-agency pilot on course sharing

Year four of Moodle at Inland Revenue.

• What we use LMS's for (being quite critical of platforms that 'come with content')
• IR's growth of internal training content (quite a broad area!)
• IR participation rate growth
• Where are we going

Implementing a Moodle LMS in an Govt agency (lessons from IR)

• Role of IT and L&D on system administration, ownership, support and conflicts
• Open Source - and the unfamiliar approach to get the best value from this
• SCORM - the voodoo and the reality
• Trust, Quality, Controls and Reporting in a growing LMS

Austen Sinclair
Inland Revenue

11.40 –12.20

Sharing your Moodle

This presentation will explore two models for sharing the costs & expertise for using Moodle and for accessing Moodle courses: a regional Moodle site for multiple schools & the Moodle networking features (MNet). David will share his experiences of supporting both models and look at developments in Moodle Networking and systems integration that will enhance options for collaborative use of Moodle in NZ.

David Sturrock
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology

Albany Senior High School - New Zealand's first open source high school.

How Moodle, Mahara and other open source tools are making a difference to teaching practices.

Mark Osborne
Deputy Principal
Albany Senior High

iLearn at Department of Conservation

This presentation is about the Department of Conservation’s (DOC) pilot of the new Moodle Industry Training Management System (MITMS) in early 2010.
The pilot has been branded ‘iLearn’.

Topics include:

• Context and Drivers – why was a Learning Management System (LMS) pilot needed for DOC?
• Approach – based on our environment and business needs.
  Why Moodle / MITMS for a LMS pilot?
• The customisation of Moodle to meet DOC’s requirements.
  The pilot phase and evaluation of iLearn.
• A longer term view for iLearn over the next 1‐3 years.

Alex Fuller
Department of Conservation

12.20 –1.05

Lunch

1.05 –2.00

Keynote address - Married to the Moodle

• the good, the bad and the ugly of this relationship
• the good times and the bad times
• what worked and what didn't work
• looking forward to the next few years ahead and where the road looks to take them
• the impact that Moodle has had and continues to have as both a tool and as an enabler on teachers and teaching practice.

Julian Ridden - Moodleman

2.00 –2.30

Course Design Patterns in Moodle

A Single Sign-On enabled eLearning environment - A Central Identity Service

Using the recent experiences of the Ministry of Education pilot programme for schools, this is a 'hands on' presentation working through the process of developing an Single Sign On enabled Managed Learning Environment from how to set up your central Identity Service, through to enabling common services such as:

• Moodle
• Mahara
• Koha, Plone or any Apache Auth controlled service
• MediaWiki (in-house, or external services such as WikiEducator.org)
• Drupal
• Google Apps forEducation

This session will appeal to IT administrators, and managers,with an expectation of audience participation.

A virtual server image will be provided with the running session content, and the audience is invited to a post-presentation session to install the necessary components.

Using Moodle for organisational wide online assessments

Sue Dark will present the benefits of an online assessment approach including re-thinking existing assessments.

Options for assessment in Moodle will be explored including the introduction of extended options through the new Moodle Industry Training Management System; and its improved reporting features.

2.30 – 3.00

Moving to integrated inter-professional communities of practice using Moodle

This presentation describes the evolution of a Community of Practice approach where over time different programmes within the field of Education have been integrated using Moodle. This development will continue with a new collaboration between Massey University and the University of Canterbury to jointly develop and deliver Post-graduate Qualifications in Specialist Teaching using a blended Community of Inquiry and Interprofessional Practice (bCIPP) approach.

Mandia Mentis and Simon Atkinson
Massey University

Moodle at Wellington College - plus How to use GoogleApps with Moodle?

Mark Callagher
E-Learning Director
Wellington College

What the Police did with their Moodle

Exploring the journey so far in implementing Moodle and elearning into the Police’s training culture. Rob will explore the “spin-off benefits” of Moodle other than just straight eLearning.

Robert Ruwhiu
Training Advisor - e-Learning
The Royal New Zealand Police College

Several months ago Rob relinquished the blue shirt and Sergeant stripes to become a non-sworn Police employee, the first person ever to have done so under the New Police Act. Rob's title is Training Advisor/site administrator: eLearning, he is located at the Police College, Porirua.

3.00 –3.20

Afternoon Tea

3.20 –4.00

User & Course Site Administration @ University of Waikato

An outline of how The University of Waikato manages user and course
administration within Moodle. This interactive session will encourage participants to discuss and share experiences and good practice ideas.

• User Creation and Authentication
• Roles and Permissions
  Course Creation, Enrolment process and Course Backup processes
• Course Rollover processes
• Integrating 3rd party modules

Moodle in NZ Schools - The Moodle Resource Centre

Meredith Henson, from Catalyst, will present the exciting MoodleinSchools.org.nz initiative developed with the support of the Ministry of Education and Catalyst. Meredith will present the features of the site, including the Moodle versions developed specifically for NZ primary and secondary schools, re-usable courses, and how you can engage with the Moodle school community to seek help, offer support to your colleagues, and how you can contribute your content.

Meredith Henson
Catalyst IT

Using Moodle for your extended Enterprise

Since 2005, Moodle has become the most widely used LMS in the New Zealand Public Sector. Typically, it is being used as an internal learning management system for training staff. However, the value of using Moodle to provide learning resources to an organisation’s extended enterprise is now also being realised. This session will present two case studies were Moodle is being used to by ACC and the Ministry of Health to provide learning resources to their respective extended enterprise.

Nolen Smith
Flexible Learning Network

4.00 – 4.30

Lightwork – Managing Marking Effectively

Lightwork is a new application for the management and marking of assignments. In addition to making the process of working with assignments more efficient, Lightwork aims at encouraging good marking practices. Lightwork is open source and is designed to work in conjunction with Moodle. It builds on the assignment functionality Moodle offers and adds features that help with the marking tasks.

See http://lightworkmarking.org for more information and software downloads.

Dr Eva Heinrich
Massey University

Lessons Learned at Papanui High

FITEC's Moodle story - an ITO’s experience of using Moodle to meet national training needs.

FITEC is the industry training organisation for the forestry, wood manufacturing, furniture and biosecurity industries.

In this presentation Richard Cowper discusses how FITEC have set up Moodle to meet the demands of delivering national qualifications to a diverse and distributed workforce. He will discuss the challenges they have faced, the realities of moving to an e-learning mode of delivery and how Moodle is helping them to achieve their goals.

Richard Cowper,
FITEC Training Package Developer.

4.30 – 4.35

Closing Address