MOODLE Presentation to

Penta Career Center’s Board of Education

Presented by Dave Harms

Need for MOODLE at Penta

Students

Parents

Between Teachers and Supervisors

Better Communication

Need

Martin Dougiamus

Disillusioned

Vision

Dougiamus’ need for creating MOODLE

Research

MOODLE was designed by Martin Dougiamus

• open source software• social constructivism• Lead thinker

Dougiamus

Development

Problems encountered storage of MOODLE on a server lack of support

Commercialization

Moodle.com – help forMOODLE users

Moodle.org – network for MOODLE users

Innovation-Decision Making Process

1. Knowledge

2. Persuasion

3. Decision4.

Implementation

5. Confirmation

Five stages in the innovation-decision making process.

Knowledge

2001 - released to the public

2002 -supported by the MOODLE community

-MOODLE 1.0 released

Dougiamas and Taylor

Knowledge - “when an individual (or other decision-making unit) is exposed to an innovation’s existence and gains an understanding of how it functions”

Persuasion

First MOODLEMoot,

face to face meeting for

users

Persuasion stage- the stage where “the individual forms a favorable or unfavorable attitude toward the innovation”

MOODLE grew in 2004

from 1000 registered

sites to 2334

2004

Decision

Key AdopterEndorsement

Decision stage – “when an individual (or other decision making unit) engages in activities that lead to a choice to adopt or reject an innovation”

Implimentation

2005 - how-to MOODLE books

2008 - 16,927,590 users

Implementation stage – “when an individual (or other decision-making unit) puts an innovation to use”

MOODLE – continually being reinvented

Confirmation

successful MOODLE implementation

2009 - 52,153 registered sites

Confirmation stage – “the individual (or other decision-making unit) seeks reinforcement for the innovation-decision already made, and may reverse this decision if exposed to conflicting messages about the innovation”

Best communication channels

ConferencesPublished articles.Moodle.comMoodleMootsHow-to books“best practices”

community.

Moodle.org – stats (2009)

Graph showing MOODLE implementation since its inception.

S-Curve

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Five Classifications of Innovators

•willing to deviate from group norms

Innovators

•leaders of group opinion

Early adopters

•open to adoption

Early majority

•need to be influenced to adopt

Late Majority

•influenced by the past and resist change.

Laggards

Innovators

Innovators - individual teachers/staff with a creative way to do something.

Paid research time Copyright ownership and credit Extra time to work on

innovations Administrative support

STRAGETIES

Early Adopters

Early adopters – teachers/staff who learn of the new innovation and integrate it.

STRAGETIES

Allowed to learn about new ideas and innovations

Stipend for time

Early Majority

Early Majority -group of teachers/staff who try the new innovation they learned of from the early adopter.

STRAGETIES

Technology director - open to new innovations - willing to work with early

majority members.

Incentives

Late Majority

Late Majority - group of teachers/staff who wait until the technology director provides in-services on the new technology.

STRAGETIES

Technology director – approve new technology

earlier.

Offer quality training

Laggards

Laggards - believe that if the methods were good enough for them, today’s students can learn the same way.

STRAGETIES

Require its implementation. Union contracts and company

policies.

Innovators Early adopters Early majority Late majority Laggards

MOODLE designed by Martin

Dougiamus

Learned of MOODLE at

different conference

s -downloade

d it and began to play with

it.

Potential MOODLE

use in their classrooms

.

Technology director

approves MOODLE - the staff

could begin using it.

Would resist

MOODLE unless

pressured to use

Five Classifications of MOODLE

Attributes Best Attribute for MOODLE

Five Attributes of Innovations

Relative Advantage increase student academic performance

Compatibility work with existing technology

Complexity complex enough to offer features, easy enough to be quickly learned

Trialability test group can implement MOODLE to work out problems

Observability See MOODLE being used in house–a link to the school website

Centralized/ Decentralized Approach

Centralized approach - “top down” diffusion in which innovation is created by “technically-expert officials”

Decentralized diffusion systems - one where the innovation comes from within and is adopted “horizontally via peer networks”

MOODLE is a decentralized diffusion approach

BUT…

inside our school, centralized approach is needed

WHY?

The technology director - approves all websites

To develop a need for

change on the part of the client To establish

an information exchange

relationship

To diagnose problems

To create an intent to

change in the client

To translate intentions

into actions

To stabilize adoption

and prevention

discontinuance

To achieve a terminal

relationship with clients

Seven Roles of a Change Agent

Penta Change Agents

Penta Focus Team

•Technology Director

•Director (Principal)

•Career Teachers (3)

•Academic Teachers (3)

Penta

10-12 grade

36 career programs ½

day

college prep academics

½ day

students com from

16 different school

districts (suburban and rural)

Critical Mass

Critical mass - the place where further adoption becomes “self-sustaining”

achieved critical mass in 2007 and that adoption of MOODLE

16,927,590 users

self-sustaini

ng in 2010.

Four Strategies to Reach Critical Mass

Role models as first

adopters

MOODLE is

“inevitable” and “

very desirable

”

Introduce to groups who are

more technol-ogically

innovative

Incentives -

stipend hours and

free training

Strategies @ Penta Career Center

Focus Group =

Champions

Match MOODLEto

Penta

Adapt MOODLE to their

environments

Create Need – show how they use MOODLE in

class

Champions Define Need

Matching Innovation To Need

Work as a form of

“skunkworks” for one year

Adapt MOODLE for a variety of situations

Adapt MOODLE

specifically for application at

Penta

Focus Group

Further Info

Links to MOODLE related sites:http://moodle.org/

http://docs.moodle.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle

http://download.moodle.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8eO7axqxr4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9XfwBzt1mY

Final Thoughts on MOODLE

Internally

With Parents

With Students

MOODLE Increases Communication