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CABWEB - a Moodle Portal for Collaborative Student Activities: 

CABWEB - a Moodle Portal for Collaborative Student Activities

Introduction: 

Introduction Who are we? Frances Bell, Elena Zaitseva, Information Systems Institute, University of Salford What are we doing with Moodle ? doing research into online collaboration doing student activities (not main VLE) Contributing to Moodle community Why are you here? To find out more about Moodle To learn and share about online collaboration activities for students ??

Agenda: 

Agenda Why do online student collaboration? Why use Moodle? CABWEB Portal Summary of Moodle tools for collaboration Tool demo (recent collaboration) Summary Questions

Why do online student collaboration?: 

Why do online student collaboration? Internet offers potential to students and staff Bologna process – important in HE Curriculum needs To prepare for global workplace To educate global citizens Cultural literacy desirable anyway

Why use Moodle?: 

Why use Moodle? Rich collaboration tools Open Source software Moodle community for support and links Multi-lingual user interface Easy editing for tutors Neutral space for cross-institutional, international activities http://moodle.org

Collaboration Across Borders: 

Collaboration Across Borders CAB funded by Socrates-Minerva to support international collaborative activities http://www.cabweb.net

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Collaboration Space HELP Network Decide on possible collaboration Find partner for your collaboration Ask for a collaboration space Running collaborative activity Look at examples of collaborations Students collaborate and learn Students try out collaboration space Monitoring the process Go to Finding Forum E-mail to CAB admin Choose resources, Write instructions, Prepare background for social interaction Prepare collaborative activity Student Collaboration Process Feedback

Moodle in use for collaboration: 

Moodle in use for collaboration Forum Asynchronous discussion with online threads, email with (optional) daily digests, file attachments, archives Chat Synchronous with icons and archives Glossary Adaptable tool for collaborative building of glossaries, encyclopaedias, FAQs WIKI Collaborative web-page building Polls (in v5) Personal messaging Salford Blogging Exercise International group of MSc students – icebreaker exercise – not assessed Example of use of recent features http://www.cabweb.net/portal/course/view.php?id=39

Summary: 

Summary Moodle growing in use worldwide Scalability possible but not widely tested – definitely a contender Work in progress to increase interoperability – LAMS, IMS Learning Design, Shibboleth, etc. Also, students and teachers seem to like it! CABWEB - 3 funding proposals submitted, more in preparation, starting to work on Learning Design and multi-media integration

Any Questions?: 

Any Questions?