Perth Hackfest October 2012/Outcomes / Badges / Alternate models

• Outcomes Explanation
  • Right now (lame)
    • Outcomes - list of stuff you should know
      • added at site level
      • selected per course
    • This activity is associated with this outcome
    • Only used in gradebook outcomes report
      • This outcome is tagged for these outcomes and that’s it
• Problem
  • outcomes associated with courses
    • If passed course, then passed outcomes/competencies
      • Might have passed some outcomes, but not others. But marked all associated outcomes as passed anyways.
• Moodlerooms
  • Add outcomes to graded event, like quiz questions
    • Have timeline of graded events => convert into an answer of competencies using an algorithm
      • algorithm will be determined by site admin
    • Graded events can have different weights
    • Defined at site level, defined by accreditation body
  • Have rough spec created https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Outcomes
  • Future implications
    • Can build recommendation engines, to help target courses to teach outcomes that someone hasn’t passed
    • Would lead to open badges, gamification, Kahn Academy like course structures
• ELIS (Remote Learner)
  • Added additional custom profile fields for courses and users
  • Rule based
    • If achieve certain events, then users fields are updated and other events can be triggered
    • Not timeline based
• Timeline
  • provides amazing opportunity for visualization
  • great to display to students of their progress
• Need to be able to associate outcome based on module, gradebook, category, etc.
• Open badges integration
  • There is a project to integrate mozilla open badges into moodle
  • Open badges could be award when a user receives one or more outcomes
  • There is an active spec for open badges integration with development starting soon. Please have a look at the current proposals and comment here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=197834