BLENDED LEARNING W SGGW

Arkadiusz Orłowski, Marian Rusek, Tomasz MinkowskiWarsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW

Modern Open Online Didactic Environment

perfect past, continuous present,and bright future

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

Online distance learning system Learning Management System (LMS) Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)

Open Source Project Distributed under GNU GPL

Authors: Martin Dougiamas, Curtin University, Perth (Australia) 118 developers registered on sourceforge

Available in 61 languages 3301 registered Moodle sites

From 115 coutries

All it requires from users is a standard web browser!

Perfect past

(March 2003)

We have found an old web server

We learned how to type some obscure SQL commands…

Sometimes heavy equipment was used to remove obstacles on our way

Voila! Our initial Moodle web site: March 2003

Continous present

(Now)

Our Moodle web site now

22 available courses; 1900 students

Course authors: dr Waldemar Karwowski

dr Andrzej Kluza

dr Jerzy Różański

dr Marian Rusek

dr hab. Arkadiusz Orłowski

dr Urszula Skórnik-Pokarowska

Course categories:

Economics 6 courses

Computers 8 courses

Mathematics 2 courses

Programming 12 courses

Miscellaneous 4 courses

Nonstandard use of an e-learning system

Supporting regular face-to-faces classes Electronic exams Collecting home works Lecture notes sharing

Administration of a students group Checking students presence in a class Grade book management Electronic message board Distant consultations

Server load (2003)

350 000 hits per month 2 800 000 hits per month(8 x increase)

Server load (2005)

Hourly usage (2003) Hourly usage (2005)

Grade book management

Our Moodle system collects grades earned by the students for: Problems solved by the students during classes Home works

Students can always check their grades And report possible errors

The teacher can easily calculate final grades

Grades as seen by the students

Simple grade export into Excel (for the teacher)

Lecture notes sharing

Every student can submit his or her lecture notes

They are graded by other students This grade affects the final grade Lecture notes can be used other students The teacher is not involved directly He will use these notes when writing a textbook

Lecture sharing example (Moodle workshop module)

Discussion forums

Forum posts can be automatically sent to all course participants

Easy way to send organizational messages to students

Allow the teacher to answer students questions around the clock

Facilitate collaborative problem solving by a students group

Example of a distant consultations at midnight

Students activities for assessment

System automatically takes care of the deadlines

Students can submit their solutions from home Some activities (quizes) are automatically

graded Assignments (graded by the teacher) are

submitted by the students as files Sometimes the students can grade themselves

(workshop module)

Our students like activities and problem solving

Submitting a file for assessment by the teacher

Assessment of other students work by a student

A standard quiz (with shuffled answers)

Not only single or multiple choice quizes!

How to conduct an exam?

Electronic

Automatically graded (to a great extent) Stressful feeling of a failure

Everything can be submitted as a file Easier to read

Questions are selected randomly

Paper

Tedious checking of students work Stressful waiting for the

result

Easier to write Sometimes difficult to read

Should be printed in several versions

Our students prefer electronic exams!

Exam access is protected by a password

… which was not complicated enough

Moodle student tracking features…

… did not succeeded this time

Fortunately the quizes were not active

The student was not able to see the questions

Proposed security measures

Every student needs to enter a password in order to start the quiz A course itself can be protected by an additional password

Enrollment key

Quizes are available only in a certain time window An additional time limit for viewing a quiz can also be set

Questions in each quiz can be randomly selected Each student has his own set of questions Answers in multiple choice quizes can also be shuffled

Quiz can be made invisible for students until an exam starts Quiz hiding is done manually by the teacher

Stupid forum posts (spam)

This time the sender was identified

Bright future

(Later)

Course sharing

Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) Moodle can import foreign courses

SCORM packages Moodle can export courses to other web sites

Export to other Moodle installations is available now Export in the form of SCORM packages will be available soon

You don’t have to use Moodle to share your courses with us! SCORM is a widely accepted standard Already supported by several Online Learning Environments

An example SCORM course imported into Moodle

Pedagogical background

Constructivism Students learn by constructing knowledge

Social constructivism Constructing knowledge is best achieved in

groups Constructionism

Learning occurs if students actually create a product

Summary

Moodle allows enhanced interaction Between teachers and students Students with other students

Moodle features encourage discussion and shared learning

Allows the students to see each other work Allows the to post their work on the web for

download at home Students can access course material if they miss

lessons