STC 2010

1. Migrating to Moodle – Faculty, Student and Technological Perspectives on Adopting an Open-Source Learning Management System Keith Landa Purchase College http:// www.slideshare.net/keith.landa http://tinyurl.com/STC2010Moodle

2. Why Moodle @ Purchase? 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 Risk management - Risks of open source - Commercial products have different risks Integration - Other systems - Web 2.0 world Flexible open architecture

3. Background – Purchase – 2008 ERes electronic reserves Liberal Arts and Sciences plus Arts Conservatories ~4200 FTE Web enhancement of F2F courses

4. LMS review @ Purchase Fall 2008 : faculty task force established; faculty survey; discussion of selection criteria (functionality, technical requirements, costs) Spring 2009 : Moodle production system established; pilot Moodle courses (~20); student survey (key driver); ongoing communication; development of general sense among faculty that ‘we’re going with Moodle’…. Context : faculty dissatisfaction with Blackboard; superficial use of LMS; escalating costs Summer 2009 : summer faculty workshop series (new); course conversion and course prep; consolidation of electronic reserves into Moodle courses Fall 2009/Spring 2010 : transition year; immediate termination of ERes; one more year of Blackboard; faculty assisted to move courses to Moodle; ongoing Moodle workshops; termination of Blackboard at end of year

5. Faculty Blackboard uses

6. LMS desired features Distribute materials Library services Integration with SIS Course communications Links to external web sites One stop shopping for students Discussion forum Gradebook New media (blogs, wikis, podcasts) Drop boxes Student collaboration tools Course reports Self-directed lessons Online quizzing Real-time tools (chat, etc) Clickers

7. Student ratings

8. Why Moodle @ Purchase? Focus on teaching & learning - Robust set of activities & resources - Add-on modules from the community - Moodle development pathway

9. Implementation – course migration Blackboard - ~1000 courses; ERes – substantially more ERes – document download, upload to Moodle Blackboard – Moodle can import Blackboard course archives (zip files), but…. (problems with the Bb archives) Temp services staff - ~300 hours from May to Aug 2009, primarily ERes migration Bb course migration on request during 2009/2010 year

10. Implementation – faculty development Spring 2009 workshops: hour long sessions, various topics; early adopters; 28 faculty 2009 Summer Faculty Workshop Series: new programming, not just Moodle; half- and full-day workshops; stipends; 36 faculty at Moodle sessions Fall 2009: Moodle Kickoff workshops; Getting Started, Gradebook, Learning Activity; 98 faculty

11. Implementation – server config Virtual servers for production and for test/dev More control over test environment Windows Server 2008 x64 4 CPUs 4 GB RAM 30 GB C: drive; 100 GB E: drive MS SQL and PHP

12. Spring 2010 analytics

13. Why Moodle @ Purchase? Costs - No licensing costs - Similar support costs Risk management - Risks of open source - Commercial products have different risks

14. Cost comparisons Blackboard Moodle Licensing $40K $0K Server VM VM Staff Fraction FTE server admin 1 FTE instructional tech Fraction FTE server admin 1 FTE instructional tech 0.5 FTE designer Course migration NA $3K onetime (ERes) Faculty development ?? $3.6K summer 2009

15. SUNY Delhi – hosted Moodle ANGEL local ANGEL hosted Bb local Bb hosted Moodle local Moodle hosted License + $37K $52K $102K $120K $0K $0K Server + $19K $9K $10K $0K $11K $0K Hosting + $0K $24K $0K $136K $0K $10K Support staff local $57K local local local local Total $46K $142K $112K $256K $11K $10K Analysis for 3 years https:// confluence.delhi.edu/display/CIS/LMS+Migration

16. Why Moodle @ Purchase? Focus on teaching & learning - Robust set of activities & resources - Add-on modules from the community - Moodle development pathway Integration - Other systems - Web 2.0 world Flexible open architecture

17. Consumer Moodle Moodle runs fine out of the box, no need for developers Active developer community worldwide Extend Moodle with add-on blocks and modules Web 2.0, LMS as home base

18. Google Maps mashup

19. Lightbox Gallery

20. Lightbox Gallery

21. Web video

22. Moodle - Google Modules and plug-ins: http:// moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id =6009

23. Mahara – Moodle integration

24. Moodle development @ Purchase Streaming Flash video resource E-reserves resource – promote use of our electronic databases Moodle-specific helpdesk

25. Why Moodle @ Purchase? 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 Risk management - Risks of open source - Commercial products have different risks Integration - Other systems - Web 2.0 world Flexible open architecture