Orlando Moodlemoot USA 2009

Martin DougiamasLead Moodler

Executive Director, Moodle Pty Ltd

DevelopingMoodle 2.0

Copyright 2008 © Martin Dougiamas

Open Source Software

Free to downloadFree to useFree to explore, modify and extendFree to distribute (under GPL)

Free to help with development Free to choose your service supplier Free to run a business using it Free to use something else!

And you are also...

Basic rights


Statistics

Over 45,000 registered verified sites in 210 countries

Registered sites contain 30 million users,3 million courses and 1.2 million teachers

About 500 sites have more than 10,000 users

Interface translated into 75 languages

54 specialised Moodle Partners


Registered versions


Usage

USA Spain UK Brazil Germany Portugal Mexico Australia Italy Canada

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There are over 740,000 registered participants in the Moodle Community at moodle.org

(about 1000 new accounts being created each day)

Community roles

Source: Moodle Community 2008

Teachers35.0%

System Admins22.0%

Educational Admins16.0%

Researchers11.0%

Software Devs8.0%

Other8.0%


Dev Community

moodle.org

Bugreports Ideas

Votes andDiscussion

QualityOpen Source

CodeInformationPriorities


Softwaremoodle.org

Moodle Economics

Clients (Institutions, Government, Companies, Teachers)

moodle.com

Contracting

Services

Royalties

Donations

ContributingCommunity

Discussion etc

ContributingDevelopers

Code


Moodle Partners


Moodle History


History

1999 0.0 First prototype versions

11 / 2001 0.9 First pre-release version on the web

8 / 2002 1.0 Forum, Survey, Journal, Resources, Quiz...

8 / 2003 1.1 Backups, Workshop, Chat, Scales...

3 / 2004 1.2 Filters, Groups, Glossary, Lesson ...

5 / 2004 1.3 Calendar, Blocks, RSS, Media plugins ...

8 / 2004 1.4 Installer, Resources, Enrolments, Wiki...

6 / 2005 1.5 XHTML, Themes, Blocks, Gradebook ...

6 / 2006 1.6 Unicode, Database, Docs, Blogs, Reports ..

11 / 2006 1.7 Roles, Admin, Oracle and MSSQL, AJAX ..

3 / 2007 1.8 Accessibility, MNet, Forms, Multi-auth...

3 / 2008 1.9 Gradebook, Outcomes, Performance, Tags, Notes..

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Waitfor it!2.0


What drives Moodle requests?


Key Drivers

Integration

Pedagogy

Control

Administration

Usability


Major Rewriting•Database access / data handling•File storage and handling •Roles and enrolments•Messaging•Backups•Gradebook and Roles•Navigation and Blocks•Themes•Text formats•Commenting•Javascript handling•Workshop 2.0•Wiki 2.0 •Lesson 2.0

2.0

Major New Features•Repository integration•Portfolio integration•Conditional activities•Course completion •Progress Tracking•Feedback module•Blog 2.0 •Resources 2.0•Site-wide groups •Secure RSS feeds •Web Services API•IMS CC•Community Hubs•Totally flexible user fields


Major Rewriting•Database access / data handling•File storage and handling •Roles and enrolments•Messaging•Backups•Gradebook and Roles•Navigation and Blocks•Themes•Text formats•Commenting•Javascript handling•Workshop 2.0•Wiki 2.0 •Lesson 2.0

2.0

Major New Features•Repository integration•Portfolio integration•Conditional activities•Course completion •Progress Tracking•Feedback module•Blog 2.0 •Resources 2.0•Site-wide groups •Secure RSS feeds •Web Services API•IMS CC•Community Hubs•Totally flexible user fields


Resources

resource

file folder urlpage ims


Files

Administration Control Integrations Usability Pedagogy


Repositories

MoodleFiles

Almost any other content

repository



Portfolios

MoodleFiles and Pages

Almost any other content

repository



Navigation



Usability



Gradebook

Usability

Roles



Themes

Consistency throughout all pages

Better separation of code from design

Allow templates if desired

Increased flexibility

Make designers happier

MORE BEAUTY!!!!



Conditional activities



Commenting



Messaging



Web Services API

Moodle Core Functions

External Client

Application

SOAP

XML-RPC

REST

AMF

External Server

Application



Community Hubs

Institution B

Moodle Hub Servereg hub.moodle.org

Register as downloadable


Template User Community User

Building a course Taking a course

Enrollable courseDownloadable courseRegister as enrollable

zip

Download

Backup

Search

Publishing site Community site

Restore

Search

Enrol

Ordinary Moodle site

CourseList

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Moodle long-term future

Moodle 2.0Rewrite of the underlying platformInfrastructure, connectivity etc

Moodle 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 .... 2.xPedagogy, teaching, learning, usability

And then ... Single web service, perhaps?


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