Moodle and the Future of Learning
Jason ColeNITLE Moodle WorkshopOctober 4, 2007
Moodle and the Future of Learning
Moodle today The context for change Possibilities for the future
Some Background
Moodle and SFSU Moodle and the OU The book
Moodle Philosophy All of us are potential teachers as
well as learners We learn particularly well from the
act of creating or expressing something for others to see
By understanding the contexts of others we can teach in a more transformational way
Learning environment needs to be flexible and adaptable so it can respond to the needs of participants
Moodle Statistics
32,000 registered sites 70 sites with more than 20k users 13.4M users 1.3M courses 1.7M teachers 14M forum posts 11M quiz questions
Moodle 2.0 – Early 2008
ePortfolios Content Repository Moodle Hub Conditional Activities Remote Moodle?
Context for Change
Computing power Network Effects Globalization and jobs
Exponential Times
© Kurzweil
Network Growth
© Kurzweil
Metcalf's Law
The value of a network increases as a square of the number of users
Age of Participation
Lulu.com Blogger Flickr Wikipedia
Information Overload
3,000 new books daily
40 exabytes generated each year
A week of NY Times = average 18th century lifetime information
Global Competition
US ranked: 17th for HS graduation 14th for HE graduation 24th for Math literacy 26th for math problem
solving
Jobs
Disease Mapper Radiosurgeon Robot Programmer Information Engineer Genomic Consultant Second Life Lawyer
Participatory Democracy
Volunteers will form online communities around certain candidates only if they are motivated to do so.- Howard Dean, Chairman US Democratic Party
Learning for the next decade
Content networks Analytics for learning Personalized instruction Virtual / augmented reality Learning for development
Content Networks
With two-way TV .... (t)he child will be able to call up any kind of information he wants about any subject and get his latest authoritative TV documentary.... The answers to his questions and probings will be the best information that man has available up to that minute in history. - R.B. Fuller 'Education Automation'
The Moodle Hub
Analytics for Learning
The unexamined life…
Faculties seem inclined to use research and experimentation to understand and improve every institution, process, and human activity except their own.. Derek Bok – Our underachieving colleges.
Personalized Learning
Personal Learning Trajectories
© IM&M
Personalized Support
Towards 2 Sigma
Towards 2 Sigma
Towards 2 Sigma
Towards 2 Sigma
Towards 2 Sigma
Augmented & Virtual Reality
Emotiv Systems
Learning for Development
Think mobile…
85% of small black businesses in South Africa
In Tanzania, 97% could access a mobile phone while only 27% had access to a fixed line phone.
And then…..
© Kurzweil
Most campuses have simply bolted new technologies onto a fixed plant, a fixed faculty, and a fixed notion of classroom instruction. Under these circumstances, technology becomes part of the problem of rising costs rather than part of the solution. – Carol Twigg, Congressional Testimony
Change Happens“…it is well to remember that the comprehensive world economics are going to force vast economic reforms of industries and nations, which incidentally will require utter modernization of the educational processes in order to be able to compete and survive.”
“We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.”
-RBF
“Revolutions tend to suck for ordinary people” – Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future
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