for%20Korean%20Language%20Classrooms

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for Korean Language Classrooms

• Russell Hugo
• Department of Linguistics
• Language Learning Center
• University of Washington
• June 2010

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What is Moodle?

• Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning
  Environment
• CMS (Content Management System)
• Open Source (Free) / PHP
• Users 35million / Sites 45,0001

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Why use Moodle?

• Open source
• Large community of users
• Robust and flexible roles
• Save instructors time

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Why use Moodle? (Teaching)

• Security
• Automated streamlined grading (Stats analysis,
  gradebook)
• One-stop course website (with interaction)
• Ease of archiving and recycling

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What can Moodle do?

• Questions

• Question bank
• Shared across courses
• Randomized questions
• Auto grading
• Adaptive
• Analytics
• Feedback
• Detail per answer / different times

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What can Moodle do?

• Multimedia
• A/V may be integrated into nearly any feature.
• Students may record audio directly as an
  assignment.

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What can Moodle do?

• Dropbox
• Assignments or general
• Interaction
• Wikis, forum, chat
• Other
• Post nearly any file format (PDF, DOC, etc)
• Available customization and notification

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What can Moodle do?

• Language Packs

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Question Types

• Essay (Manually graded)
• Short Answer (Complicated auto-grading)
• Random Short-Answer Matching
• True/False
• Matching
• Cloze / Embedded (Hot Potatoes)
• Multiple Choice
• Drag and Drop
• Audio recording (Assignment)

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Question Types

• Multiple Choice

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Some UW Moodle examples

• Korean 1st year, 2nd year
• Vocabulary practice quizzes
• Composition submission
• Audio recordings
• Linguistics
• 200 students per quarter for introductory class.
• All quizzes and homework are handled by Moodle.
• Time and labor benefits (Grading)
• Supplementary study options (Self-guided study)

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Some UW Moodle examples

• Modern Hebrew
• Secure language proficiency exam
• Other languages using Moodle
• Arabic
• Chinese
• Czech
• Danish
• English
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hebrew (Biblical)
• Indonesian

• Japanese
• Lithuanian
• Mongolian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tibetan
• Uygur

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Incremental vs. complete launch

• Supplementary materials (e.g., syllabi)
• Naming conventions
• Customization and archiving
• Incremental steps are safer

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Incremental launch examples

• Linguistics
• Fall Quizzes
• Winter Quizzes HW
• Spring Quizzes, HW, and some tests.
• Korean
• Fall Recording assignment and supplementary
  materials
• Winter Quizzes

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General course management

• Outline/Weekly
• Roles
• Enrollment Key (Student responsibility)
• Archiving and course reset

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Roles TAs

• Enrollment keys for groups
• TAs as non-editing teachers

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Question Bank design

• Depth vs breadth
• Arbitrary, but careful planning is recommended.
• Depth of 3 (Korean)
• Depth of 4 (Linguistics)
• Organization
• Lesson (Korean)
• Type (Linguistics)

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Cheating prevention

• Randomization
• Actual questions
• Question order
• Choice order
• Time limits and availability
• Logs
• Detailed record of exact student activity.
• Did they really experience a problem?

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Prevention of hardware and software issues

• Required quiz for the first week.
• Test audio
• Test fonts
• Optional
• End of the quarter survey

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Other modules suited for language teaching

• Covcell
• Whiteboard
• Audio/Video Conferencing
• Presence block (Chat)
• Hot Potatoes

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Moodle 2.0Is the future of Moodle worth waiting
for?

• ETA July 20th
• Conditional activities 2
• Completion tracking
• number of new posts or replies in a forum made
• scored in a quiz
• Has created pages in a wiki or has made edits
  
• A user has viewed a resource number of times
• A user has participated in an activity (i.e. has
  made a choice)
• A completion Criteria can be date based if
  required
• It can also be set that a student themselves can
  mark when they deem the activity completed

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Moodle 2.0Is the future of Moodle worth waiting
for?

• Community Hubs
• New blocks
• Comments may be added to any page.
• Student personal online file repository
• Blogs

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Moodle 2.0Is the future of Moodle worth waiting
for?

• Fixes/Improvements
• Quiz and questions
• Tagging, searching, flagging
• Layout, navigation
• Backup and restore
• Layout flexibility
• Multiple enrolment
• Better file management
• New HTML editor
• Email/messaging integration
• New workshops module
• New Wiki module

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Limitations and Downsides

• Interface
• Student user
• Instructor learning curve
• (interface makes it seem more difficult).
• Server required
• Linux recommended
• Arguably wider support and larger community
• Administrator knowledge required (PHP, MySQL)
• A skilled admin is recommended.
• Bugs

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Limitations and Downsides

• Amount of options
• Some obscure terminology
• HTML interface
• Allegedly fixed in 2.0.

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Thank you

• References
• 1http//moodle.org/stats/
• 2http//www.moodleman.net/archives/290
• http//moodle.org/
• Links
• http//moodle.org/course/view.php?id21
• Korean Moodle Forum
• http//moodle.org/course/view.php?id31
• Moodle for Language Learning
• http//lms2.cms.hu-berlin.de/covcell/login/index.p
  hp
• COVCELL testing course

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Question Types

• Cloze / Embedded