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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
We asked participants to think about their 'hopes', 'fears', and 'dreams' for the MoodleNet project.
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
Affinity group responses
Participants also split into affinity groups to think about what people in a particular role or position would find it useful for MoodleNet to provide.
Admin (techie)
Why?
- Big supply of expertise available - for $
- Provide easy quick options for one time support beyond forums (paid?)
- Empower more people who need that little push to be successful
- Big supply of expertise available - for free
- Moodle users work in many contexts
- Effective use of Moodle requires expertise from many disciplines - multiple skillsets
- Need immediate feedback / input / help
- Moodle itself is not a great repository of resources, knowledge (i.e. forums, documentation insufficient)
How?
- Staff to consolidate knowledge FACILITATORS therefore making it easily searchable
- Ability to identify help for appropriate user types (i.e. bus intelligence)
- Search like Google - what do anyways
- Use Google - access topic within Moodle AND other resources
- More effective search
- Consolidated knowledge of optics - maybe lists, active, of 'who can help'
What?
- Moodle (match.com) - matching ppl who need w/ people who can offer
- Way to access other experts and collaborate
- Quick reliable responses to help requests
- User-friendly documentation
- Better documentation
- Way to connect and pool resources
New users (less than one year)
Why?
- N/A (answered by Moodle mission)
How?
- Course template builder
- Site building wizard (a match.com version for Moodle)
- A separate area where new users can access with ease
- Answer critical early stage questions
What?
- Moodle integration wizard
- A regular website for new users
Learners
Why?
- Moodle mission
How?
- Connect learners with instructors for the purpose of improving course design and usage
- Learner friendly roadmap vs Jira dev roadmap
- Measuring learner/educator efficacy
- Learners request new features into Moodle
- Student feedback about Moodle within Moodle
What?
- Shared learning techniques & resources for similar courses at possible different locations
- Professional note taking
- Paid & enhanced services that learners buy into (professional help)
- Learners share self-created educational resources
- Learners able to connect with devs
- Learners can go for career opportunities in education
- Student consulting groups for disciplines / professions
- Tutoring & mentoring
- Office hours with educator not tied to location where learner is
- Portfolio for learners
- Moodle.net certification / degree
- Student focus groups for educators, companies, schools
Educators
Why?
- Empower, improve, connect, effect, vision
How?
- Direct connection to similar educators
- Filtered search to find materials
- Badges + certification
- Strong facilitator
- Open source content
- Incentive + challenges
- Direct connection to resources
What?
- Resources
- Best practices
- User rating + reporting
- Fun practices
Developers
Why?
- Connect
- Contain valid and current docs
- Feature request trend tracking
- Earn a living as a developer
- Development community support
- Build & value analytics based on communication
- 3rd party plugin support
- Make users jobs easier
How?
- Service matchmaking
- Anonymiser share data sets
- Move dev docs in git version ctrl
- Non techie & legal language for techies to use
- Anon donations of code or data
- Gather needs of users
- Sysadmin matchmaker for short-term assist
- Meeting coordination for devs & others
- Connects clients w/ devs
- 3rd party support recruiting
- Connect devs w/ devs
- Theme/plugin marketplace
- Tag questions & answers w/ versions
- Test LTI etc.
- Feature bounties
- Data sampling - abstraction
- Instructions for enhancing courses w/ out plugin - LTI-like
- Needs matchmaker
- Reputation
- Tag contributions by intended audience
What?
- Meeting space e.g. BBB
- Rating of support as well as dev't & clients
- Live chats?
- Moderation? Filters?
- Report repository SQL etc.
- Shared data sets
- Crowdfunding features for plugin
Out of scope
- Diaspora*
- Easier updating Moodle
- Hidden pointed pixels all apps
- Ability to isolate test case data for behot?
Instructional designers
Why?
- What other users are using?
- Desire content sharing across users
- Communicate to other IDs using Moodle
- ID focused connected users
How?
- Profile account history
- Profiles tell MoodleNet what content to show based on role
- Can we see other people course design?
- How did you do the course?
- Courses are designed
- Need to collaborate
- Share designs for constructivists
- IDs able to help other users
- Most popular stuff - have it notify IDs to use it
- Consultant meet need of problems - experience in certain area
- Links to Learn Moodle etc.
- Share training resources
What?
- "Follow" other IDs
- List of institutions w/ profiles of what plugins & integrations
- Moodle product reviews - integration, feedback, etc.
- See + share course designs
- Collaboration & build a model
- Watch someone interact with my course? - see how stumble
- Open source to see other course?
- Shared course shells
- ID live chats?
- Showcase the courses
- Venting area - overcome issues / how to fall into line
- Like & dislikes feature (saved to profile)
- Moodle research project (portal)
Out of scope
- How to install plugins - easy explanations (non-developer)
- How-to courses for all roles
- Moodle HQ live chat
- Moot takeaways info