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Title: Introducing moodle at Goldsmiths


1
Introducing moodle at Goldsmiths
  • John Phelps
  • Sonja Grussendorf
  • Goldsmiths, University of London

2
Introduction
  • Context
  • Why we moodled
  • Experiences
  • Issues Benefits
  • Impact and the future

3
Context
  • Specialist college of the University of London
    since 1904
  • Creative, cultural and social processes
  • Excess of 8000 students at Bachelor, Masters and
    Doctorate levels
  • 300 academic staff, 500 visiting tutors

4
VLE Implementation
  • Reasoning
  • Learning and teaching strategy
  • Integration with other systems (cultural shift)
  • Resources
  • Capital costs, support costs
  • Demonstrate need
  • Pilots and Evaluation

5
Why we moodled
  • Open Source
  • Less risk, no commercial lock-in
  • Known and well understood technologies
  • Low start up cost
  • Invest in infrastructure and support
  • Similar feature set to commercial packages
  • Notices, discussion forum
  • Surveys, quizzes, files
  • Active Community

6
What do we run Moodle on?
  • Twin Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz Processors
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 292 GB Storage (RAID)
  • Two Gigabits NICs
  • Red Hat Linux 8.0, Apache Web server, PostgreSQL
  • Password protected, links with college
    authentication via LDAP

7
Where Are We Now?
  • After 1 year
  • Over 60 courses with online presence
  • Over 2700 individual users
  • Used 7 days a week, 365 days a yearfrom 0600
    0300

8
Cases
9
Our philosophy
  • It ought to encourage and improve communication
    between academics and students
  • It is created by academic staff
  • It is not a glorified document retrieval system
  • It should focus on student needs

10
BenefitsStudents perceptions
  • Up to date information
  • Notices, room changes, general course
    information, assignment dates, lecture times,
  • Downloading resources
  • Handouts, lecture notes, articles, web links etc
  • Flexible access
  • And, most importantly,
  • Communication
  • With both teachers and fellow students!

11
IssuesStudents perceptions
  • Dependent on academic staff input
  • Frustrating if not (regularly) updated
  • Not all courses available
  • Student (un)surprisingly expect constancy
  • User problems
  • Off-site access
  • Moodle Classic design
  • I dont really like the colours..but I dont
    really come on here to look at the colours, just
    as long as I can access the section I need to get
    to is the main priority

12
Maintenance and costs
  • Low staff training overhead
  • Almost always available
  • Quick and easy upgrades
  • Log in issues
  • Users, cookies and Norton
  • Intuitive application
  • More focus on pedagogy

13
Impact
  • Students want it
  • Community Moodles for non-curricular groups
  • NQTs, student societies
  • We are committed to using Moodle and the community

14
Contact Details
  • John Phelps
  • mailtoj.phelps_at_gold.ac.uk
  • Sonja Grussendorf mailtos.grussendorf_at_gold.ac.uk
  • CELT, Information Services
  • Goldsmiths, University of London,
  • New Cross, London. SE14 6NW.United Kingdom
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