MoodleNet

Note: short URL to access this page: moodle.com/moodlenet

We'll be building out this page as the MoodleNet project develops.

MoodleMoot Miami

At the MoodleMoot in Miami (November 2017) we asked participants for their input to the MoodleNet project. The slides and etherpad from that session can be found below;

• #MootUS17 etherpad: https://devpad.moodle.org/p/MoodleNet
• Slides: https://goo.gl/rvPjj7

In addition, we asked participants to think about their 'hopes', 'fears', and 'dreams' for the MoodleNet project. They also split into affinity groups to think about what people in their role/position would find it useful for MoodleNet to provide.

Hopes

• Packaged for competency frameworks (i.e. quality matters)
• Trustworthy
• Our faculty are willing to share some learning objects
• People will provide feedback
• Sharing good practice and experiences
• People will improve content
• Share content made with Moodle
• Access to GOOD quality OER content
• Addictive
• Works in all LMS
• It's easy to share and pull in resources into Moodle
• Activity from HQ
• A resource that all teachers, instructional designers, support people, etc. will go to for the best examples that Moodle could offer
• Portals for different role communities w/ chat (like AOL in the 90's). Who's online?
• Simple user interface
• Place to share our work - like Facebook timeline. A gallery of what people have done.
• Sharing of best practices
• Is promoted / marketed effectively and appropriately
• Contributed objects will have a review or discussion area so they can be community evaluated for appropriate uses
• Integration of partners to provide support for questions. One-stop shop
• Faculty development opportunities
• Create amazing courses - fashion
• Repository of activities for re-purposing
• A place to see examples of ways Moodle is being used by others
• A portfolio for teachers that REPLACES LinkedIn
• Option to contribute anonymously; option to require attribution or not
• It becomes a major player in the social media world
• One button to update content pulled from MoodleNet
• Great platform for sharing best practices
• All user forums posts are responded to
• Easy to navigate
• Gallery of courses to view to get inspiration for developing my courses
• Option to find others for content development
• Definition of moodle.net - users and dev. where you ask for features?
• Replace current Moodle community
• Rating system and reviews on content
• Have community facilitators
• User interface feels like Yammer / Facebook / Teams
• Share problems and quickly identify issues
• More regular teachers involved
• Access to great open courseware
• Paid bounty for support
• Students USE it =)
• Open
• Moderated
• Sexy interface
• Stays relevant for a long time
• Highly configurable
• Synchronous options to communicate
• Enhanced engagement w/ community knowledge holders
• Help me find Moodle resources
• Access to free training from HQ and partners
• Content is shared in such a way that it can be used by users of other LMSs too
• Different sections for different user types (dev/teacher/design)
• Feature to request someone review your content before you post
• Content is tagged to make it easy to find content you can use
• A place for users to connect with consultants for paid support
• Features like Meetup to let teachers get together to have conversations
• Find stuff easily
• "Integration with every Moodle site" is not intrusive
• Documentation will be kept up to date
• An easy way to find information
• Corresponding tags to identify pedagogy / curriculum / paradigm
• Be very easy to use
• A platform for students from different fields to connect
• Be open to all interested
• Will run the SAME as the original app
• Single sign-on for all users for all sites
• Connects people best practices + technical
• Some filtering so it doesn't get weighed down with crap that isn't useful
• Seamless
• I can get paid or attributed for content
• Way to connect with other Moodlers
• Suggested tutorials broken down by role (teacher / admin / developer)
• Have a great search function
• To understand what MoodleNet is
• Help me connect with other Moodle users
• A place to share educational material
• Bring the Moodle community together in a coherent way
• Variety of realworld content for all industries
• Different user roles so connections can be made at appropriate levels. Assignable groups.
• Get traction with students actually using it
• Have ability to favorite / follow content or creators
• Market for helping others
• Pull request like GitHub for improving content
• Reuse activities from a course on one site on another
• I could help people with Moodle and get paid
• Manage to get contribution in my Moodle vs. having another login
• High level of activity
• Place to share ideas
• Perfect place to learn Moodle
• Channels for grouping and identifying self
• Share/barter expertise with real-time feedback
• Crowdsourcing solutions and/or finding community members who can help, troubleshoot, brainstorm, etc.
• Easy to find usergroups
• Provides an open stream of communication with the various groups in the Moodle community (e.g. devs, support, etc.)
• Use Moodle FB to specifically show updates/videos
• Collaboration
• FREE TOAST =)
• Helping place
• Collaborative knowledge base
• Places where developers, designers, and users can interact
• Video tutorials
• Knowledge base
• Go to the help center
• Help desk
• Button to create audio file from a text file
• Easy path to component installation
• Includes discussion forums for asking questions of similar roled users
• Repository of courses, packages, analytics. this could save instructors lots of time putting courses together.
• Crowd sourcing for plugins
• It facilitates positive change in Moodle core
• Allowing different roles in Moodle to "cross-over" in a comfortable way
• Better understanding of what MoodleNet is
• Incentive based engagement
• Share ideas on how to use Moodle

Fears

• The capabilities in Moodle will not be appropriate for instructors to use objects from MoodleNet w/o admin assistance
• Don't want to be forced to use the service
• Safety/security for K12 student involvement
• Not well moderated/monitored
• Schools will be afraid to move/change
• Lack of administration or moderation to the website
• Doesn't work - won't use it
• It becomes too commercial and loses primary focus
• Moodle goes away
• No-one cares or notices content
• Big Brother danger with all websites connected
• Accessibility issues
• It's another platform I have to remember to use
• Takes too much time
• Participation takes too much time
• High barrier of entry
• Lack of activity
• We use 3rd party modules; wouldn't be supported
• Too many new things going on - quantity trumps quality
• It might get outdated quickly
• We don't want to lose our Moodle.org PHM status + reputation
• It becomes work
• It can't pay for itself
• Easy to ignore
• Increase complexity for Moodle owners
• What we create does not improve what is already available
• To be able to interact socially in person & not only in social networks
• MySpace blink tags
• Have to provide course support
• Ends up with too much content that makes it hard to find the "good stuff"
• Too complex
• Poor UI resulting in less usage
• Inadequate documentation
• Not used by the vast majority of Moodle users
• It won't happen for years
• Effort fizzles, nothing materializes
• It will cost too much
• Getting closer to online education may lead to lack of direct interaction with teacher & other students & discipline
• Becoming too relaxed, not being innovative
• Data used to sell me things
• Fear of sharing because others will steal my stuff
• No-one uses it
• Copyright violations and lawsuits
• Too technologically intimidating for instructors
• Management of content
• Content control
• Content layout
• Bad content
• Also open
• Blackboard buyout turns it into a for-profit and injects ads
• People won't know how to share
• Make teachers and staff need me less
• Anti-techy, educator-only
• Will get as much HQ attention as mod.lesson
• Another MySpace site
• Only works in IE6
• MoodleNet becomes the "education" Facebook
• Content does not apply to customized Moodle sites

Dreams

• World peace through understanding + education
• Community builder using LTI to build larger collaborative learning communities
• It is used by >80% of educators in the world
• Facilitators recruitment in information educational technologies
• Snake wearing vest pushing do-nut down a hill
• Forum threads with answered questions - moodle.stackoverflow.com
• Machine translation between Moodle that is as good as a human so that anyone can take any class
• Digital MoodleMoot (meet others using Moodle)
• Open
• Critical mass where education + reason hold sway over fear + anger
• MoodleNet displaces textbook publisher OER
• Filtering through the information
• Q&A
• Troubleshooting
• Help agent
• Facilitates: recruitment + hiring resources
• Instant popup notification each time user logs in based on your interests & history
• More regular teachers engaged on Moodle
• Have Patreon model
• Connecting students across the globe
• Connect students with experts
• Seamless integration with Moodle using an interface within Moodle to upload and download content
• Collection of all OER sources by topics
• "Social media" transfer protocol
• Connect w/ others w/ the same goals
• Link to other Moodle sites/guests
• Cool UI features like video service integrations, live streams, virtual events
• Collaborative plugin BETA releases
• FREE!
• Sign into Facebook using MoodleNet
• Shared technical specifications
• Revolutionize education and learning
• A person can take over my screen and fix the problem
• LTI support
• Have content marketplace for not just Moodle
• Way to get someone to help fix/set up site in realtime - for free
• Universal badges for everyone
• Better world
• All plugins will be moved here as well
• Augmented reality