February 26, 2010

Part I:Barbara ButlerBarbara MooreBrett Christie

Part II:Mary DingleLiz ThachPat JacksonMary Ellen WilkoszElizabeth Stanny

Part III:YOU

Mary DingleEducational Leadership and Special Education

Dr. Liz ThachProfessor of Management & Wine Business,

School of Business & EconomicsWine Business Institute

WebCT ExperienceHave taught complete course on WebCTAlso use to post assignments, handouts

MoodleSomething new; Better platform

CourseBus 344 – two sections

Moodle summer course helpful Designed hybrid course: 1 day face to face; one day

Moodle What I like about Moodle:

More sophisticated tools, e.g. CHOICE, GLOSSARY Much faster and easier to read and grade

assignments Amazing ability to run reports to see exactly who

did and didn’t do assignments Student photos and bios Better grade book feature Nicer aesthetics

No issues with student’s transitioning to Moodle who had already used WEBCT.

Students said they enjoyed hybrid model.

Conducted student satisfaction poll on Moodle with positive results

Fall 2009 Bus 344.3, Organizational Behavior (37

students) Bus 344.4, Organizational Behavior (48

students)

Spring 2010 Bus 344.1, Organizational Behavior (123

students) Bus 305W, Intro. To Wine Business (48

students)

After teaching on both WebCT and Moodle at the same time last semester, I can truly say that Moodle is much easier to use – and offers many more sophisticated tools.

Introduction

Pat Jackson, Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies

Moodle supported my upper division seminar, a core requirement of the Criminology & Criminal Justice Studies (CCJS), CCJS 420, Seminar in CCJS

My Experience Building in Moodle I found it helpful to install Moodle on my

computer. It worked well with Word, Excel, images,

etc. in a mostly Mac environment Did not work with Safari

My Experience Building in Moodle It was easy to reproduce my class on

Moodle, by week. It’s cut and paste. The fun stuff:

Making web pages/links, etc. on the fly Posting pdfs, text docs, etc. instead of

eReserve or other Creating a forum Quickmail from Moodle

My Students’ Experience

Moodle was easy to navigate, download and print from

Some students don’t care for technology and prefer to deal in paper

Our brick and mortar seminar was served well by Moodle

My Students’ Experience

Main things students did with Moodle: Learned latest happenings and downloaded

materials: assignments, readings & took links

Contributed to a glossary Introduce themselves to others using a

forum

My Students’ Experience

Result: A couple of interesting discussions Instigated discussion in the classroom

about how writing something online is always nerve-

wracking because of how it might be used how interesting some criminologists are and

how current and past interests in crime haven’t changed much

Quick Glance at My Course

CSU Pilot Moodle courses CCJS 420

Summary of My Experience with Moodle

A hybrid class• Hid backstage construction work from

audience• Organized assignments, readings and web

links• Allowed monitoring of student usage of all

pages and activities Did not: Use Moodle for grading or testing Try collaborative online learning

Introduction

WebCT “workhorse” for delivering Nursing curriculum

Satisfaction . . . Depends on the day!

Moodle = New and exciting possibilities

My Experience Building in Moodle Ease of Use Functionality Explaining and performing Assessments Communicating with Students Monitoring student participation and

activity Incorporation of web streaming,

voice-over PowerPoint's

My Students’ Experience

Positive Positive Positive “Very little guess work compared to WebCT” “Everything I needed was listed under a

particular week, it was easy to access content, assignments”

“I appreciated the multiple options for communicating with instructor”

“Having everything right in front of me made it easy to know what to expect in the upcoming weeks”

Quick Glance at My Course

http://cspilot.mrooms2.net/user/view.php?id=1947&course=276

Summary of My Experience with Moodle

Happy with Moodle Lots of work to transition but CSU Moodle

Coalition will help We have a year so it’s doable End product will be worth the energy up

front.