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Sloodlewww.sloodle.org
Daniel LivingstoneUniversity of Paisley
Funded and Supported by Eduserv
Sloodle and Moodle
• VLE (LMS) vs MUVE• Why Sloodle?• Sloodle Tools• Sloodle Community• Sloodle Survey
Learning Support in VLEs
• Document dissemination– Long form/formatted documents
• Management tools• Asynchronous & synchronous
discussion• Coursework submissions• Assessments• Learning object integration• Management tools/tracking
– Gradebooks
Multi-User Virtual Environments
Image: Fleep Tuque (Chris Collins)
What Happened When I taught with SL…• Virtual world too open-ended, lacks
obvious goals, rich social & technical environment
• Students needed support for working towards goals and reflecting on experiences
• E.g. permissions on objects, group work– Students often needed to work together
but failed to set object permissions correctly
Sloodle• Non-prescriptive approach
– Support different pedagogies• Second Life as a Moodle client
– Access Moodle from within the 3D environment
• Moodle to enhance learning support in Second Life– Provide better support for learners in
Second Life• Second Life and Moodle as
complimentary and integrated learning environments– Do something more than using the two
separately
Sloodle Architecture
MoodleDB
MoodlePhp
SloodlePhp
HTTP
Web Browser
Second Life
LSLObject
Moodle/SloodleWeb-server
Approaches to integration
• The 3D classroom– Original conception
• UI integration– The Sloodle toolbar
• The Rich 3D Learning Environment– Learning & assessment built into a
rich 3D interactive virtual landscape
The 3D Classroom
PrimDrop - Digital Dropbox
1. Gathering assignments2. Version control3. Feedback4. Permissions5. Returning
submissions6. Supporting
reflectionhttp://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=VUUnnLm-AG4
Chat: Web-Intercom
UI Integration
Challenges• Authentication• Propagation of roles from Moodle to
SL– Differing roles in SL than in Moodle –
glossary, chat tools– Using Moodle to set SL roles – dropbox,
management tools• Supporting Flexibility
– Adding flexibility adds complexity to many SL objects
– To what degree should Sloodle support flexibility vs. allowing users to modify Sloodle for particular uses
• What can we add to Moodle, to make Sloodle more ‘standard’?
Progress…
• User authentication• User toolbar• Classroom tools
– Chat support/logging/messaging– Glossary– Drop box
• Check permissions• log SL submissions on Moodle
– 3D Classroom– Quiz tool
• 0.2 release in December• Feature request survey in progress
for future development
Community
• Sloodle.org– Forums, resources, links
• Sloodlers– In-world group in Second Life
• Sloodle Village in Second Life– Meeting, chat and learning zones
• Weekly meetings– Developers and Users (Tuesdays,
varying times – see Sloodle.org)• SloodleMoot – Jan 18th/19th
Summary• Providing access to Moodle from SL• Providing new tools for supporting
learners– E.g. Dropboxes for more effective
sharing, submission, markup and return of 3D projects; Gestures; …
• Providing new paths for communication between web and 3D learning environments
• Sloodle is a work in progress– Specific goals: Integrate Moodle & SL– Wider goals: Learn more about the hows
and whys for integrating VLEs and MUVEs
Credit: Janina DewitzChris Surridge