I recently gave a talk at the Moodlemoot’AU 2016 conference in Perth. The talk was titled “How and why do people use the Moodle Book module?” It reported on analysis of data from one University's Moodle isntances to explore how courses, learners, and teachers made use of the Moodle Book module (aka the Book) from 2012 through 2015. The slides, abstract, and links to various interactive graphs used in the presentation are available via the presentation webpage....more...
Time to explore some of the strange courses that have been identified. There are currently two types:...more...
Natalie writes about how she's working a new practice into how she responds to student queries. It's a process in which she attempts to model an approach to answering the query and including links to relevant sites. This is a practice that I use a fair bit, especially with the Moodle Book resources in my undergraduate course. This post seeks to explore my own practice, but also how wide spread that practice is in others....more...
In a previous post I generated various representations of when Moodle Book resources were being used and some indications of when they were being created. What I didn't do in that post was generate a calendar heatmap of when the Book resources were being create and modified. This is of interest because I'm wondering whether or not these resources (web pages) are being modified throughout the semester, or just at the beginning....more...
The last post in this series looked briefly at the contents of Moodle Book resources. This post is going to look at when the book resources are used, including:...more...
Part 6 of this series diverges a bit from the last post and moves away from what people are doing with the Book resources to focus on the contents of the Book resources themselves. Questions I'm hoping to explore in this post include:...more...
Continuing the exploration of how the Moodle Book module is being used, this post picks up from the last and will...more...
Yesterday's part 3 in this series of posts continued the higher level examination of book usage. i.e. what types of courses use the Moodle Book module (the Book). This post is going to continue that a little and then start to make some forays into looking more closely at how resources produced using the Book are actually used. In particular, it's going to look at the following:...more...
Continuing on from yesterday's post this post seeks to explore a bit further how the Moodle Book module (the Book) is being used at my current institution....more...
This is the second in a series of posts exploring the usage of the Moodle Book module at my current institution. The first post gave some background and outlined an initial series of questions about Book usage that I'm aiming to explore. This post reports on initial findings related to the following...more...
I'm due to have the slides for a Moodlemoot Australia presentation in a few weeks. Time to get organised. The following is (perhaps) the first of a sequence of posts reporting on progress toward that presentation and the related research....more...
Below are collection of resources related to a presentation given at Moodle Moot'AU 2016, titled "How and why do people use the Moodle Book Module?"...more...
For quite some time I've experienced and believed that there how universities are implementing digital learning has some issues that contribute to perceived problems with the quality of such learning and its associated teaching. The following is an outline of an exploratory research project intended to confirm (or not) aspects of this belief....more...