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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
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 90
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10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
40000
45000
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32000
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45710
MOODLE S-Curve
Dates
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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