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7 Ways to Get Started with Analytics & Reports in Moodle - Moodle.com
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Promising Practices in developmental education - Reconsidering the MOOC: 10 years of progress?
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Massive Open Online Courses Temporal Profilingfor Dropout Prediction
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Resource Usage Analysis from a DifferentPerspective on MOOC Dropout
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Memorization is Still Important, Even in Deeper Learning « Competency Works
- but my mistake has been in undervaluing memorization.
- we should lift the knowledge about how to memorize in the long-term into that set of skills every student should know.
- Cognitive Principle: Each subject area has some set of facts that, if committed to long-term memory, aids problem-solving by freeing working memory resources and illuminating contexts in which existing knowledge and skills can be applied. The size and content of this set varies by subject matter
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Academic LMS Market Share: A view across four global regions -
- I described the trajectory of Moodle, noting that "the data seem to indicate a collapse of Moodle selections in the US and Canada, and potentially a significant slow-down in other regions
- market share as the percentage of primary systems at degree-granting institutions for each of four global regions: North America (US and Canada), Europe, Latin America, and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand and surrounding island countries).
- across the globe we essentially have had a duopoly in this market - Moodle and Blackboard Learn
- North America is the only region where a third-place solution (Canvas) or fourth-place (D2L), comes close to these two systems in market share.
- Europe has the largest number of long-tail systems. Sakai, Ilias, Olat, Stud.IP, Claroline, itsLearning, and Fronter are all second-tier competitors
- Canvas either has a long way to go to join Moodle and Blackboard as overall market leaders, or Canvas has a tremendous amount of headroom to continue its growth both in North America and in international regions.
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OII Network Visualisation Example
Open education: citation network
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- In every region outside of North America (US and Canada), Moodle has largest market share by far, and it is second place in North America.
- But the trajectory of Moodle new implementations (higher education degree-granting institutions moving from another LMS to Moodle as the primary LMS) is striking
- Remembering that 2017 is partial-year data, this view still shows that Moodle's selection as a new LMS has virtually ceased in the US and Canada after peaking in 2010.
- While we should avoid over interpreting 2017 partial-year data, the data seem to indicate a collapse of Moodle selections in the US and Canada, and potentially a significant slow-down in other regions.
- Instructure has signaled very strongly to investors that it plans to target the installed Moodle base for growth of its LMS, Canvas. Just last week the University of Minnesota, a long-time Moodle customer, announced that its 80k students and 6 campuses would be moving to Canvas.
- When you combine the precipitous drop in new implementations with the observed movement from standalone or mom-and-pop Moodle installations to larger Moodle Partners like Moodlerooms, you see a broader movement towards cloud hosting and enterprise solutions. This is interesting in that Moodle is not feature-poor, but the support and hosting models of the big three proprietary vendors and the larger Moodle Partners seems to be a key driver for change
- there is no risk in the near term for the installed base to reduce to unhealthy levels
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The Self-determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI) - Teacher's guide
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- our learners being able to thrive in a digital world
- the evidence is that complex, specialised digital practices need the support of subject specialists – people who understand their value and can introduce them in a subject context.
- Digital capabilities are subject specialised
- Focus curriculum conversations on the four ‘situated practices’ in the centre of the framework.
- creation, problem-solving and innovation.
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Openness and education: a beginner's guide | GO-GN
- In order to do this we used a citation analysis approach,
- You can explore the network over on Katy’s site.
- This is a must see.
- a range of coverage and type of publication
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Beyond Pedagogy: How Our Rigid Belief in Learner Passivity is Stunting Innovation | The EvoLLLution
- It often carries over the very elements of our educational system that are least effective and most actively encourage passivity, e.g., the use of lectures, multiple choice exams, cookie-cutter assignments and mandatory discussion boards that are more often make-work than meaningful discussions.
- I no longer believe, however, that teaching is the only or even the best way to learn.
- Learning and engagement are intertwined; passivity is the death knell of engagement
- The attitude that “the presence of a faculty member” equals “education” has serious consequences
- The good news is that taking the education of adult students seriously gives us the impetus to rethink the professor-centric worldview for all students
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- Students need to be involved in the planning and evaluation of their instruction;
- Experience (including mistakes) provides the basis for learning activities;
- Students are most interested in learning about subjects that have immediate relevance to their job or personal life;
- Learning is problem-centered rather than content-oriented
- Information and skills to be learned can be directly applied across borders between subjects and outside the classroom in situations where the information and skills are used (natural transfer)
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Future-forward: How to incorporate the 5th 'C' of 21st Century learning | eSchool News
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Why Moodle Supporters Should be Concerned -
- While Moodle is still by far the most widely adopted LMS in higher education globally and is no danger of disappearing any time soon, I believe that our data should give the Moodle community cause for considerable concern about their long-term future and should trigger some soul searching about how the community can ensure it continues to have the development resources necessary to continue to be relevant in the long term.
- Notice the scope of the chart: It does not include the US and Canada
- our coverage of these areas of the world are not as complete as they are in the US and Canada, so trends we see in our data for these parts of the world should be considered directional and somewhat provisional rather than pinpoint accurate.
- When we look at installed base, Moodle still looks formidable:
- The second caveat is that the chart shows new adoptions.
- So the issue we’re talking about is not that Moodle is disappearing but rather that it is losing ground during new adoption cycles.
- We measure higher education institutional adoptions
- But institutional higher education adoption is a particularly meaningful measure for Moodle’s long-term health
- his is what is sometimes known as the “benevolent dictator” model of open source
- However much input the company may take from the community, the ultimate decisions and, perhaps more importantly for this post, the work of implementing those decisions, fall under the purview of Moodle Pty, a for-profit company that must generate revenue to pay the employees who actually write that code
- In richer countries, adopters could afford to pay hosting or management companies to run their mission-critical instances.
- In poorer countries, they could adopt Moodle themselves without paying a hosting or support vendor. Moodle has always been unusually easy to install and run on even modest hardware relative to its competition, so poorer schools could still manage to adopt it with the resources that they had
- But the problem is potentially worse for Moodle, because we’re beginning to see a pattern take hold in international markets as they reach a certain level of maturity, and it’s not good a good one for Moodle
- Moodle’s Robin Hood model is under threat because whenever a market becomes rich enough to generate significant revenue for Moodle Pty, it also becomes rich enough for universities to consider switching to cloud hosting by one of Moodle’s commercial competitors.
- According to our analysis, Moodle has over 80% of Brazil’s higher education institutional LMS market share. It’s entirely possible that we would not have seen that kind of growth in access to education if Moodle had not existed.
- If the data patterns we are observing hold, then that engine may be under long-term threat. While Moodle has far too broad an installed base to disappear any time soon and just received an infusion of investor money, the fact is that its sustainability model is now in question.
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Saturday, November 11, 2017
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